The secretary of state said the victims of Tuesday’s attacks were “not combatants in any conflict; they posed no threat; they wished no one harm”, in stark contrast to “terrorists whose sole aim was to kill and maim and sow fear”.
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State Department deputy spokesman Mark Toner said Tuesday that they are “aware of approximately a dozen USA citizens injured in the attacks”, and no deaths. The official spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive findings.
Both said the fight against the Islamic State will be relentless. “And we will not rest until we have eliminated your nihilistic beliefs and cowardice from the face of this Earth”.
Adelma Tapia Ruiz was on a family trip when she was killed in the Brussels airport attacks.
On Thursday, prosecutors announced six people had been detained in raids connected to the bombings.
Two French officials identify him as a 34-year-old Frenchman who has been wanted since January on suspicion of links to terrorism.
Stopping off in Brussels as a mark of solidarity in the wake of the jihadist onslaught, Kerry warned more attacks might come as the Islamic State group comes under increasing pressure in its Syrian and Iraqi heartland. Belgian authorities did not immediately identify any of the dead.
They confirmed that David Dixon, a computer programmer living in Brussels, was killed in the bombing on the Brussels subway. She was at the airport with her husband, Christophe Delcambe, and their twin four-year-old daughters, Maureen and Alondra. Because Bakraoui was not on any watch lists at the time and because he had a valid Belgian passport, van der Steur said, “there was no reason to take any action”.
France’s interior minister says the man was in the “advanced stages” of a plot to attack the country.
The Brussels attackers had been on authorities’ radar.
Bellin, a father of two and 6-foot-10 basketball player with the Oakland University and the Belgian national team, was thrown 6 feet into the air by the airport blast and injured by shrapnel in his left leg and right hip, his father, Jean Bellin told the BBC.
Leopold Hecht was gravely wounded in the bombing at Maelbeek subway station and died later of his injuries.
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Tapia Ruiz was politically active andparticipated in Brussels in a march to commemorate International Women’s Day, which drew attention to the plight of thousands of women refugees arriving in Europe from Syria and other war-torn nations, according to the report. “He was a good student”, recalled Veronica Pellegrini, the director of the Institut de la Sainte-Famille d’Helmet.
