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		</div><p>Belgium has tightened security to counter fears that lone attackers could strike anywhere and at any time.</p>
<p>This comes one day after a failed bombing by a man shouting &#8220;Allahu akbar&#8221; at a Brussels train station.</p>
<p>Belgium tightens security following failed Brussles bombing</p>
<p>Belgium has tightened security to counter fears that lone attackers could strike anywhere and at any time.</p>
<p>This comes one day after a failed bombing by a man shouting &#8220;Allahu akbar&#8221; at a Brussels train station.</p>
<p>A soldier killed the attacker, who had tried to set off a powerful nail bomb that could have led to fatalities among the two dozen or so travellers checking train times on a public display board at Brussels Central Station on Tuesday, officials said.</p>
<p>Similar attacks by lone assailants causing maximum mayhem but few victims have also occurred in London and Paris in the past few days, putting European capitals on alert.</p>
<p>The Brussels attacker was a Moroccan national not known to authorities for being involved in terror activities, federal magistrate Eric Van der Sypt told reporters.</p>
<p>His office said that the attacker sympathised with Islamic State and added that police who raided his home found &#8220;chemicals and material that can be used to make explosives&#8221;.</p>
<p>The statement from the federal prosecutor&#8217;s office also said that the 36-year-old &#8220;likely made the bomb&#8221; at his home in the Molenbeek neighborhood.</p>
<p>Molenbeek was the home and transit point for many of the suspects linked to attacks in Brussels and in Paris in November 2015.</p>
<p>The man charged soldiers at Brussels Central Station after his suitcase, containing nails and gas canisters, failed to fully explode, Mr Van der Sypt said.</p>
<p>The man then shouted &#8220;Allahu akbar&#8221;, Arabic for &#8220;God is great&#8221;, before a soldier shot him dead, the magistrate said. Nobody else was injured.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;It was clear he wanted to cause much more damage than what happened,&#8221;</i> Mr Van der Sypt said.</p>
<p><i>&#8220;The bag exploded twice but it could have been a lot worse.&#8221;</i></p>
<p>Central Station reopened on Wednesday morning.</p>
<p>A mobile police command unit and several officers were still at the station, an Associated Press photographer said.</p>
<p>Burn marks remained on the floor at the scene as workers continued to clean up and paint the area.</p>
<p>Belgium&#8217;s Crisis Centre said it sees no need to raise the national security alert level, which has been on its second-highest rung for more than a year.</p>
<p>It said that no public events would be cancelled but that additional police and troops have been mobilised.</p>
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