Post by Shadow broker on Mar 22, 2016 19:51:25 GMT
Brussels Airport and Subway Attacks Kill at Least 30; ISIS Claims Responsibility
Brussels on Edge After Blasts at Airport and Subway Station - Two explosions were reported at the departure hall at Brussels Airport in - The New York Times
www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2016/03/23/world/brussels-on-edge-after-blasts-at-airport-and-subway-station/s/23belgium-ss-hp-slide-8XYS.html
BRUSSELS — The Islamic State claimed responsibility for deadly bombings that traumatized Brussels on Tuesday, killing at least 30 people at the main international airport and in a subway station at the heart of the city, near the headquarters of the European Union. Hours later the police found an unexploded bomb, loaded with nails, in a Brussels house search, along with chemicals and an Islamic State flag.
The violence began shortly before 8 a.m. with an explosion in the departure terminal at Brussels Airport believed to be hidden in luggage, followed shortly by another. Then, at 9:11 a.m., a bomb tore through a car of a subway train as it was pulling out of the Maelbeek station.
Officials said the bombings killed at least 10 at the airport and 20 at the subway station — and more than 230 others were wounded.
“We were fearing terrorist attacks, and that has now happened,” Prime Minister Charles Michel of Belgium said at a news conference, calling the attacks “blind, violent, cowardly.” On Twitter, he called on people to “avoid all movement,” as the authorities braced for the possibility of additional violence. King Philippe planned a televised address later.
Belgian news media published a surveillance photograph from the airport showing three men pushing luggage carts, two of them appearing to be wearing gloves on their left hands and a third wearing a dark hat and white jacket. Belgium’s federal prosecutor, Frédéric Van Leeuw, told an evening news conference that the black-gloved men were “believed to have been suicide bombers,” and that the authorities were hunting the third man, with several house searches underway.
The federal prosecutor’s office said later in a statement that one of the searches, in Brussels’s Schaerbeek district, led to the discovery of “an explosive device containing nails, among other things.” The statement said the investigators also found “chemical products and a flag of the Islamic State.”
Brussels on Edge After Blasts at Airport and Subway Station - Two explosions were reported at the departure hall at Brussels Airport in - The New York Times
www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2016/03/23/world/brussels-on-edge-after-blasts-at-airport-and-subway-station/s/23belgium-ss-hp-slide-8XYS.html
BRUSSELS — The Islamic State claimed responsibility for deadly bombings that traumatized Brussels on Tuesday, killing at least 30 people at the main international airport and in a subway station at the heart of the city, near the headquarters of the European Union. Hours later the police found an unexploded bomb, loaded with nails, in a Brussels house search, along with chemicals and an Islamic State flag.
The violence began shortly before 8 a.m. with an explosion in the departure terminal at Brussels Airport believed to be hidden in luggage, followed shortly by another. Then, at 9:11 a.m., a bomb tore through a car of a subway train as it was pulling out of the Maelbeek station.
Officials said the bombings killed at least 10 at the airport and 20 at the subway station — and more than 230 others were wounded.
“We were fearing terrorist attacks, and that has now happened,” Prime Minister Charles Michel of Belgium said at a news conference, calling the attacks “blind, violent, cowardly.” On Twitter, he called on people to “avoid all movement,” as the authorities braced for the possibility of additional violence. King Philippe planned a televised address later.
Belgian news media published a surveillance photograph from the airport showing three men pushing luggage carts, two of them appearing to be wearing gloves on their left hands and a third wearing a dark hat and white jacket. Belgium’s federal prosecutor, Frédéric Van Leeuw, told an evening news conference that the black-gloved men were “believed to have been suicide bombers,” and that the authorities were hunting the third man, with several house searches underway.
The federal prosecutor’s office said later in a statement that one of the searches, in Brussels’s Schaerbeek district, led to the discovery of “an explosive device containing nails, among other things.” The statement said the investigators also found “chemical products and a flag of the Islamic State.”