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The bombings were the deadliest attack on Belgium since World War II. [32] Seventeen of the victims were Belgian (including three with dual nationality) and the rest were foreign nationals. [1] Foreign victims came from different countries including the US, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, Poland, China, India and Peru.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for suicide bomb attacks on Brussels airport and a rush-hour metro train in the Belgian capital on Tuesday which killed at least 30 people, with police hunting ...
The two who escaped were arrested three days later on 18 March in the Molenbeek district of Brussels. A second major attack then took place on 22 March in Brussels in which coordinated bombings at the airport and at a metro station killed 32 people. Three suicide bombers died, while another two fled without detonating their explosives. [3]
Ibrahim El Bakraoui was born on 9 October 1986 in Brussels and raised in Laeken, a residential district in northwestern Brussels. [1] He held dual Belgian and Moroccan nationalities. [ 2 ] His father, a retired butcher and devout Muslim, emigrated from Morocco ; his mother was described as "conservative and reclusive". [ 1 ]
Police released new images Thursday showing the so-called 'man in white' behind the Brussels Airport bombing and appealed for help from the public.
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On 15 and 18 March 2016, Belgian police carried out raids on houses in Brussels.The raids were conducted in connection to the attacks in Paris four months earlier. In the raids, one suspect was killed and five others were arrested, including Salah Abdeslam, the only surviving member of the 10-man unit that carried out the November 2015 Paris attacks.
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