"There were 92 shooting incidents in Brussels last year, killing nine people and injuring 48, according to police data. Six shootings have been recorded since January 1 with Friday's fatality the first of the year. […] Perched on Europe's northwest coast, Belgium has become a key hub for criminal gangs smuggling narcotics into the continent.
There have been street shootouts in Antwerp, whose port has become a transit point for cocaine coming from Latin America. The violence has spread to the Belgian capital."—France Info
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