A major fire breaks out in an apartment building in Antwerp, Belgium, with multiple people killed and others injured, according to Belgian police and multiple news outlets. The blaze starts on the eighth floor of a residential block in the Linkeroever district, and spreads through the multi-storey building. The building is described as having around 10 floors and housing more than 200 residents.
Residents and emergency crews respond as flames develop, and many people are hurt. Several accounts describe evacuations and people trying to escape from upper levels, including scrambling onto a roof while firefighters work to bring the fire under control. The outlets do not provide consistent details on the number of victims or the cause of the fire.
The reporting broadly agrees on the location, the start point within the building (eighth floor), the building height, the large number of residents, and the outcome of fatalities and injuries. Authorities are cited as confirming deaths and reporting injuries, while investigations into the cause continue.
