Man blows himself up on empty football field

Belgium : A man died after blowing himself up on an empty football field in the eastern Belgian town of Verviers in an apparent suicide, the city’s deputy mayor Hasan Aydin said yesterday.

“The individual, whose identity is not yet known, blew himself up in the middle of the football field around 0830 (0630 GMT) in the morning,” Aydin
said.

“He was alone in the middle of the field,” he added.

“Suicide seems the most likely reason for the moment because if he had wanted to cause casualties, the man would have chosen another place at another time,” he added.

“It would seem that he is a European in his fifties and a former career military officer,” the deputy mayor said.