Brussels blasts: Cops find bomb, IS flag from apartment during raid

Belgian police on Tuesday found a bomb and an Islamic State (IS) flag during a search at a Brussels apartment.

Belgian police on Tuesday found a bomb and an Islamic State (IS) flag during a search at a Brussels apartment carried out after deadly attacks in the Belgian capital that killed over 30 people, prosecutors said.

Belgium policemen stand guards at a security perimeter near Maalbeek metro station. (AFP)

“The searches that took place in the Schaerbeek (district) found an explosive device containing nails among other things,” the federal prosecutor said in a statement.

“Investigators also discovered chemicals and a flag of the Islamic State,” the statement added.

Searches were being carried out “in several parts of the country” and “several witnesses also were being heard,” it said.