[Reuters] A mix-up by a Brussels taxi dispatcher may have prevented more carnage at the city's airport on Tuesday, Belgium's DH newspaper reported, saying the cab firm sent a smaller car to pick up the bombers than the one ordered.
When the driver turned up in a saloon [i.e. sedan], the three found they could not fit all four heavy holdalls into the trunk. They left one behind.
| For want of a nail... Let us be grateful it was not a great deal worse. |
After the taxi driver called police to relate the tale, they found a large nail bomb in the apartment in the borough of Schaerbeek and defused it. Police had no comment on the report. |