Police are still looking for at least one, unidentified man who investigators say dropped a big bag of explosives at the airport’s check-in hall before leaving the scene.
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Mr Kerry, travelling from Moscow, landed at Brussels airport where one of Tuesday’s attacks occurred.
Belgian officials have named the second suicide bomber in Brussels attack at airport as Najim Laachraoui, and said that his DNA was found at sites of Paris attacks.
Belgian prosecutors are expected to decide later Friday whether to charge or release them.
This video includes clips from ABC and Deutsche Welle and images from the Belgian Federal Police and Getty Images.
Meanwhile, as Belgium lowered its threat level Thursday from the highest level, 4, to a 3, Paul Van Tieghem, director of the office that evaluates threats to the nation, said there was no indication that another attack was imminent but that the threat was still serious and possible. The Islamic State (IS) has said that it carried out both the Brussels and Paris attacks.
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said in a televised address that the arrest helped “foil a plot in France that was at an advanced stage”.
Police are holding six people following a series of raids in Brussels over the attacks on the city’s airport and Metro system.
The arrest comes amid raids in Brussels today as the manhunt continued for two suspects in this week’s deadly bombings.
Belgian prosecutors have said at least four people were involved in Tuesday’s attacks on the Brussels airport and a subway train, including brothers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui, identified as suicide bombers.
During the lead-up to the Brussels attacks, Salah Abdeslam, thought to be the lone surviving member of the 10-man team of terrorists in Paris, was arrested in Brussels.
“To further build on the global information exchange it is now facilitating in the aftermath of the attacks, INTERPOL will consolidate law enforcement efforts worldwide to locate and arrest individuals linked to Foreign Terrorist Fighter (FTF) networks through its operation Infra (International Fugitives Round-up and Arrest) model”, it announced in an online statement. “So he saw police officers after the attacks”, Mary said.
“The interior and justice ministers offered their resignations over administration missteps leading up to Tuesday’s attacks”.
Abdeslam, 26, a French citizen who grew up in Brussels’ heavily immigrant Molenbeek neighborhood, slipped through police fingers on multiple occasions, including the day after the attacks.
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The Brussels bombings continued to have political repercussions, with questions surrounding the issue of whether more could have been done to prevent them.
