Last night a grenade detonated again in Deurne. That happened near the Sportpaleis. The explosive went off on the street. There were no injuries.
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“The explosion took place around 3.05 am in De Gryspeerstraat in Deurne,” confirms Sven Lommaert of the Antwerp police. The grenade was thrown into the porch of a former pharmacy, but rolled back into the street and only then exploded. No one was hurt, ”he says. Demining service Dovo and the forensic lab came to the scene.
The incident is the fourth violent incident this weekend. Sunday morning a grenade exploded under a parked car in Borgerhout, while the day before a house was fired at around the corner. It is not yet clear whether this new explosion can be linked to the previous incidents or to the drug environment.
In Deurne, an explosion also took place in Kerkhofweg on Saturday night. There, a front door of a rental house was completely destroyed, but there was no grenade detonation. According to local residents, there have been problems with loitering youths for some time.
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