A fire broke out Tuesday at a building being renovated in downtown Brussels, injuring two people and leaving six missing. Authorities in the Belgian capital said that a number of charred bodies had been found in an elevator at the site.
The fire started on the second floor of the building in a main shopping area, and the flames spread into a lift shaft, said Brecht Speybrouck, a spokesman for the Labor Audit Office.
Speybrouck said 250 workers at the site were evacuated, two were taken to a hospital with severe burns and six were missing. He said charred bodies were found in one of the elevators, but did not give a number and could not clarify whether they included any of the missing.
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