Their parents were asked to wait for them at the Waregem Expo events hall.Įlsewhere, in the town, some public buildings such as the local Town Hall were also put under lockdown.Įarlier in the day around 4,000 students at the Vives College of Higher Education were evacuated. In Waregem all the schools in the centre of the town locked their gates and pupils were only allowed to return home once it had been confirmed that the man had been apprehended. This came after both the centre of Waregem had been put under lockdown. The Special Forces Unit was able to apprehend the armed man in Avelgem thanks to a tip off from 15-year-old local schoolboy. An Examining Magistrate will decide on whether he will remain in custody. The young man was taken to Kortrijk Police Station for questioning. 'At the time of his arrest he was in possession of an air soft weapon that was a perfect replica of a real gun”. The Judicial Authorities said in a statement that the person apprehended was already known to them and to the police. The young man was finally apprehended at around 6pm on Thursday evening in Avelgem. There around 12,000 people were told to stay inside as police searched for the armed man that had been spotted at the Vives Campus earlier in the day. The Volvo inflators, made by ZF/TRW, do not use ammonium nitrate, but the propellant can still deteriorate when exposed to high heat and humidity, according to documents posted Tuesday by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration.On Thursday afternoon the search for the armed man switched to Waregem, a few kilometres from Kortrijk. More than 400 have been injured in the U.S. and 28 worldwide have been killed by exploding Takata inflators. But the chemical can deteriorate over time when exposed to high heat and humidity and burn too fast, blowing apart a metal canister.Īt least 19 people in the U.S. The company used ammonium nitrate to create a small explosion to inflate the air bags. The problem is similar to widespread trouble with air bag inflators made by bankrupt Japanese air bag maker Takata. The latest recall covers S80 sedans from 2001 to 2006 and S60s from 2001 through 2009. The recall is in addition to one from November of 2020, which was done after an unidentified U.S. because the front driver’s air bag can explode and send shrapnel into the cabin. DETROIT (AP) - Volvo is recalling nearly 260,000 older cars in the U.S.

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