Belgium apartment block fire kills, injures several people

Several people have been killed and many injured in a fire in an apartment block in the Belgian city of Antwerp, police said Wednesday. The blaze broke out mid-morning on the eighth floor of the building, where more than 200 people live, in the city’s Linkeroever neighbourhood, sending vast plumes of smoke into the air, Antwerp police said in a statement. An evacuation of the 10-storey building was under way. Local residents were warned to keep their windows and doors closed and, if needed, to...