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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.
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]
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.
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 ...
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Another suspect was arrested over links to the Brussels bombings, Belgian authorities said Saturday as armed police swooped on a city suburb. Brussels bomb: Police arrest another suspect amid raid ...
The 2023 Brussels shooting was an Islamist terrorist attack carried out at about 19:15 (CEST) on 16 October when Abdesalem Lassoued, a 45-year-old Tunisian living illegally in Brussels, Belgium, opened fire on Swedish football supporters at the intersection of two boulevards just off the Square Sainctelette, leaving two dead and one injured.
The man was captured on cameras at the Brussels airport with two men, identified as brothers, suspected of being suicide bombers. Belgium names Brussels bomber brothers, key suspect on run Skip to ...