UPDATE - Armed man who is entrenched in a house in Horebeke is nabbed

Horebeke The man who is after the afternoon had holed up in his house in Horebeke is nabbed. At the time of his arrest hit, no one injured. The man surrendered after police hours and hours with him had communicated with an intercom system. He is the research transferred to the University Hospital in Ghent.

The crisis in and around the house to the district Vrijsbeke in Horebeke was around two hours this afternoon. A man in his fifties was noted when he with a gun was walking in the street near his own house. A neighbor first alerted the police of the Town. When cops arrived, devoured the man in his house. He remained with the weapon in the hand behind and the window.

The local police estimated the situation as too dangerous to the house to go inside and called the help call of colleagues from the federal police. The heavily armed response teams rushed to the spot.

Police and fire brigade locks the area around the house and months all residents in the neighborhood to stay inside.

the Two drones were circulating all the time around the house where the man had withdrawn. A specialized team remained for hours to keep contact with the man, and then he eventually overgag.

The man left without defence dropping off. He was transferred to the University Hospital in Ghent.

Psychological problems

It would go to a man with psychological problems.

“It is someone who we don't know so well, because he lives a withdrawn life leading. I know that he still operated has aroused in the rest home, but has been unemployed”, says the Horebeekse mayor Joseph Browaeys. “The man is single and lived with his mother until she last year passed away. That he is a or multiple weapons in the house, was not known to us,” said the mayor.