Mentally ill man causes bomb scare in Brussels

A man who said he was wearing a bomb belt rigged to explode by remote control caused a major scare in a Brussels commercial district before police found the device contained only salt and biscuits, officials said.

The Belgian capital of 1.2 million people remains on edge under a high-security alert three months after three IS suicide bombers blew themselves up at Brussels Airport and in a metro train, killing 32 people.

Yesterday, Brussels police detained a man near the bustling City2 shopping centre after he announced that he was strapped with explosives that would be set off remotely.