Search continues for survivors, victims of Belgium fire

"We had ​small access to one of the two elevator cabinets and there we had a view that there are some corpses of two or three people who died," spokesman Brecht Speybrouck ⁠told Reuters.

He said a ‌total ​of six workers were unaccounted for and that it was unclear ​what had ‌caused the fire.

The local fire brigade said more than ​200 workers had been on the site when the fire broke out and that three people had been ​taken ​to a hospital.

An ​initial fire at the lower floors ‌of the renovation project was contained relatively quickly, Belgian broadcaster VRT said, citing the fire brigade. But flames that went through the elevator shafts caused a new fire in ​an underground floor, the firefighters said.