Panic in Belgium after strikers sound nuclear sirens

Striking civil protection engineers caused panic in Belgium by sounding the country's nuclear sirens all morning.

Striking civil protection engineers caused panic in Belgium by sounding the country's nuclear sirens all morning.

Sirens were set off in the ports of Ghent and Antwerp and the town of Tihange where some people took iodine tablets to protect themselves from a nuclear explosion.

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