Photo gallery: Belgian crime lab attack

An explosion “of criminal origin” at Belgium’s national criminology institute in Brussels early on August 29, 2016, caused a fire and major damage but no casualties, officials said.

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Associated Press

Aug. 29, 2016 5:41 AM PT

Members of an investigation team analyze debris in front of the Brussels Criminology Institute building after a car containing a bomb rammed through three fences, leading to an explosion and a large fire in Brussels, Belgium.

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The scene at the Brussels Criminology Institute building after a car containing a bomb rammed through three fences, leading to an explosion and a large fire, at the builing in Brussels, Belgium.

(Geert Vanden Wijngaert / AP)

The burnt car used to ram raid the National Institute for Criminalistics and Criminology overnight in Neder-Over-Heembeek.

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Belgium police officers gather in front of the Brussels Criminology Institute building after a car containing a bomb rammed through three fences, leading to an explosion and a large fire in Brussels, Belgium.

(STEPHANIE LECOCQ / EPA)

The scene at the Brussels Criminology Institute building after a car containing a bomb rammed through three fences, leading to an explosion and a large fire, at the builing in Brussels, Belgium.

(Stephanie Lecocq / EPA)

(STEPHANIE LECOCQ / EPA)

The scene at the Brussels Criminology Institute building after a car containing a bomb rammed through three fences, leading to an explosion and a large fire, at the builing in Brussels, Belgium.

(Geert Vanden Wijngaert / AP)

The scene at the Brussels Criminology Institute building after a car containing a bomb rammed through three fences, leading to an explosion and a large fire, at the builing in Brussels, Belgium.

(Thierry Roge / AFP/Getty Images)

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Photo gallery: Belgian crime lab attack

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