Belgium opens manslaughter investigation over flood deaths

A magistrate will look at whether possible failings in the alert system led to the country's worst floods in decades

A Belgian judge has opened an investigation for possible manslaughter over floods there that claimed 38 lives, the prosecutors office in the city of Liege announced.

The investigating magistrate has the task of identifying who might be responsible for involuntary homicide by lack of foresight or precaution" the prosecutors office said in a statement on Wednesday.