{"id":459962,"date":"2026-07-14T18:29:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T16:29:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/2026\/07\/14\/un-incendio-divampa-in-un-cantiere-nel-cuore-di-bruxelles-cinque-le-vittime\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T19:00:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:00:28","slug":"five-dead-fire-brussels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/2026\/07\/14\/five-dead-fire-brussels\/","title":{"rendered":"A fire breaks out at a building site in the heart of Brussels; five people have died"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 A fire broke out this morning at 8 am at the construction site of the OXY building in Place De Brouck\u00e8re, in the centre of Brussels. At present, there are\u00a0five fatalities\u00a0<\/strong>. This has been reported by local media.\u00a0As reported by the\u00a0Belga<\/em>\u00a0news agency<\/a>, the fire started before 8 am on the first and second floors and was quickly brought under control. However, the flames reached the lift shaft, causing another fire that spread to the second basement level. This led to a violent blaze, which was brought under control at around 9 am.<\/p>\n

“Two victims with severe burns were taken to the burns unit at the military hospital in Neder-Over-Heembeek,” said\u00a0Brecht Speybrouck, auditor\u00a0for the Brussels Labour Court<\/strong>, earlier today. “In addition, there has been a problem with two lift shafts, where the lifts are stuck. We have already managed to gain access to one of the two lifts. Access is very limited; we do not have a full view, but we have seen\u00a0that, unfortunately, there are fatalities in that lift,\u201d he explained. Subsequently, the civil protection team working at the scene of the fire managed to clear a path to the lift involved in the blaze and found five victims. \u201cThe coroner is at the scene. Now,\u201d explained Valentina Marocchi, the Brussels labour prosecutor, \u201cwe will be identifying the people we have found to see if they are the same ones\u201d who were reported missing. The death toll \u201cstands at five, probably six,\u201d she continued. At present, the search is focusing on the first lift. \u201cWe hope the death toll will not rise any further.\u201d The deceased \u201care all victims of an accident at work,\u201d she emphasised.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile,\u00a0King Philippe of Belgium and Prime Minister Bart De Wever<\/strong>\u00a0visited the scene of the fire\u00a0to assess the scale of the tragedy that occurred in the heart of the Belgian capital. The Commissioner\u00a0<\/span>for Equality, Crisis Preparedness and Management,\u00a0Hajda Lahbib<\/strong>, expressed her condolences to the victims and the families affected by the fire. \u201cMy thoughts are with the victims and their families, affected by the fire at the Oxy Tower in the heart of Brussels. I offer my respect and gratitude to the frontline responders, firefighters, police officers, and medical staff. Your courage saves lives,\u201d\u00a0she wrote on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brussels \u2013 A fire broke out this morning at 8 am at the construction site of the OXY building in Place De Brouck\u00e8re, in the centre of Brussels. At present, there are\u00a0five fatalities\u00a0. This has been reported by local media.\u00a0As reported by the\u00a0Belga\u00a0news agency, the fire started before 8 am on the first and second […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7896,"featured_media":214805,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":{"format":"standard","override":[{"template":"1","parallax":"1","fullscreen":"1","layout":"right-sidebar","sidebar":"default-sidebar","second_sidebar":"default-sidebar","sticky_sidebar":"1","share_position":"top","share_float_style":"share-monocrhome","show_featured":"1","show_post_meta":"1","show_post_author":"1","show_post_author_image":"1","show_post_date":"1","post_date_format":"default","post_date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","show_post_category":"1","show_post_reading_time":"0","post_reading_time_wpm":"300","post_calculate_word_method":"str_word_count","show_zoom_button":"0","zoom_button_out_step":"2","zoom_button_in_step":"3","show_post_tag":"1","show_prev_next_post":"1","show_popup_post":"1","show_comment_section":"1","number_popup_post":"1","show_author_box":"0","show_post_related":"1","show_inline_post_related":"0"}],"image_override":[{"single_post_thumbnail_size":"crop-500","single_post_gallery_size":"crop-500"}],"trending_post_position":"meta","trending_post_label":"Trending","sponsored_post_label":"Sponsored by","disable_ad":"0","subtitle":""},"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":{"view_counter_number":"0","share_counter_number":"0","like_counter_number":"0","dislike_counter_number":"0"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[25712,25774],"tags":[31735,31280,34850,31064,34852,30861,34851],"class_list":["post-459962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-in-brief","tag-brussels-en","tag-bruxelles-en-3","tag-cronaca-2","tag-death-en","tag-fire","tag-hadja-lahbib-en-2","tag-incendio"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7896"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459962"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459962\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":459966,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459962\/revisions\/459966"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/214805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eunews.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}