Two Britons were injured in the attacks, the Foreign Office said. Yet Belgian state broadcaster RTBF, citing emergency services, reported 20 dead at the Maalbeek metro station and 14 more killed at Brussels’ global airport.
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L.A. Airport Police checkpoints will remain random.
“I am horrified by the despicable and cowardly attacks which took place in Brussels today”, he said.
Airport officials in Sanford said the flight was the only one from Brussels to make it to the U.S. Tuesday.
“In the past, Islamist groups carried out one big attack and then they were rolled up and not able to carry out anything else”, Henman said.
Some have suggested the latest attacks might have been created to send a clear message to Abdeslam, who is said to be co-operating with police. Among them was Brussels commuter David Dixon, originally from Hartlepool, who failed to arrive at work on Tuesday morning.
Officials initially said the passengers were aware of the bombings, but once in Sanford, they said they were not told anything until their plane was on the ground.
They are due to bomb squad activity upon the discovery that the suspects might have left explosives behind. “You have to get the information from these people”.
Belga News Agency reported that the image was released by police at the request of the federal prosecutor.
The new reality of jihadism in Europe is of entrenched networks that are fairly resistant to police disruption and prepared to act at a moment’s notice – even in a country like Belgium that is on high alert.
The Obama administration stepped up security at major transit hubs across the country after Tuesday’s airport and subway bombings in Brussels, as top USA intelligence officials warned of the risk for copycat attacks at home.
Austrian Horst Pilger, waiting on a flight with his family, said his children had thought fireworks were going off, but he instantly knew an assault was under way.
Brad Waldow, a 24-year-old center who starred at Saint Mary’s College in California, said he had been with teammate Kwame Vaughn in the departure hall near the scene of an explosion minutes before it happened.
Berlin’s Brandenburg Gate, Rome’s Trevi Fountain, the Eiffel Tower and Lyon’s courthouse have been lit up with the colours of the Belgian flag in a show of solidarity. The bombs in Brussels’ airport and subway locked down the European Union’s capital just a few months after attacks shocked Paris and San Bernadino, California.
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The Twitter hashtag #JeSuisBruxelles was trending as were cartoons riffing on the theme of the city’s irreverent emblem, Manneken Pis, a small fountain statue of a boy urinating.
