A fire broke out Friday morning in a building squatted by a group of people located on the chaussée de Mons, Anderlecht, at the height of the railway bridge, said the spokesman of the fire brigade of the Brussels Walter Derieuw.

The emergency services have been called a little before 08: 30 for a fire in the cellar. "The fire had caught in the stairwell," explains Walter Derieuw. "The occupants were consequently blocked, and were all put to the balconies and the windows. We evacuated twenty people with the auto-ladders and through openings that have been created on the ground floor. They removed the wood panels of the windows that were closed. This has also helped to evacuate the smoke. The people could not pass through the corridor so there were. "