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Belgian police have arrested 65 people in connection with unrest sparked by the death of a 19-year-old in a collision with a police car during a chase, media reports say.
The incidents, which took place in defiance of restrictions in place to stem the spread of the coronavirus, occurred in Anderlecht outside Brussels, according to the Belgian news agency Belga.
The unrest reportedly first broke out on Saturday, when police arrested 43 people, and continued through the night as groups of people set cars on fire, a police spokeswoman said.
The clashes were sparked by the death of a 19-year-old after his scooter collided with a police car during a chase on Friday evening, Belga said.
Small groups of angry people then gathered in Anderlecht over the course of Saturday, Belga reported.
Describing the scenes as "extremely tense," Belgian broadcaster RTBF said it had seen videos from Saturday night in which one man shot into the air with a weapon he had apparently stolen from a police officer.
You can hear in the video 'Alluha Akbar' chanted as a weapon is fired and chaos is ramped up.