One person died after a shooting in Brussels that was likely linked to clashes between rival drug gangs, the local prosecutor's office said on Friday, highlighting rising crime in the Belgian capital city which also hosts the main EU institutions.

Belgian police are looking for armed men after a shooting was reported outside a metro station in the centre of Brussels. CCTV footage broadcast by local media shows at least two men wearing balaclavas and carrying weapons at the entrance of Clémenceau station in the Belgian capital early on Wednesday.

Police in Belgium are hunting armed men after a shooting outside a metro station in the centre of Brussels on Wednesday morning. The incident took place outside Clémenceau station at around 6.15am just before the suspects fled into the metro tunnels.