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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.
Najm al-'Ashrāwī (Arabic: نجم العشراوي, 18 May 1991 – 22 March 2016), also known as Abū Idrīs al-Baljīkī or Soufiane Kayal, [1] [2] was a Belgian-Moroccan terrorist and Islamic State militant who was one of two suicide bombers at Brussels Airport in the 2016 Brussels bombings. [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 ]
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Updated July 14, 2016 at 10:48 PM ... four days after Brussels police had captured the prime surviving suspect in Islamic State's attacks on Paris last November in which 130 people were killed ...
The fourth victim, a Belgian employee of the museum, later died of his injuries in hospital. Six days after the attack, on 30 May 2014, Mehdi Nemmouche, a 29-year-old French national of Algerian origin, was arrested during a routine drugs check in Marseille , France, when he was found to be carrying weapons identical to those used in the shooting.
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