According to Mashable, a 14-year-old girl was in a shop across the street from where the raid took place with her cousin. After hearing gunfire, the girl, her cousin, and other customers hid in the basement and stayed there for an hour.
“First we saw the police coming with a big shot gun,” said the 14-year-old.
“Then we heard shots so we were super scared and went to the basement,” she added.
She said that after she went back upstairs she saw a man on the tram tracks who was holding a bag.
Another witness, Louise Roger, also saw the individual on the tracks.
“He couldn’t walk, he couldn’t, I think he stayed on the ground. He was on the tracks,” Roger told Mashable.
“There were the two gunshots; I heard a young girl screaming, and the police said, ‘Leave her. Go,’” added Roger.
The raid comes days after suicide bombers detonated bombs in the Brussels airport and metro system. The attacks killed 31 people and injured 270. ISIS claimed responsibility for the blasts shortly after.
