People wait to board a train in Brussels to the Belgian coastal resort of Blankenberge, Belgium on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2020. The coast is just a 90-minute train ride from the capital Brussels, and other ...

STORY: Footage posted on social media showed a large plume of black smoke rising across an empty beach in Koksijde as a team from the Belgian military's bomb disposal unit blew up the explosive.

Authorities in Belgium detonated a World War II-era bomb that was found on a beach next to the Belgian town of Koksijde. The operation was carried out by the military’s bomb disposal unit on Feb. 28.

BRUSSELS — It started as a Saturday trip to Belgium’s coast, a chance to escape a heat wave and coronavirus restrictions for a while. As the tide came in, the beach got crowded. Someone complained ...