Bombs exploded Tuesday at the Brussels airport and one of the city’s metro stations Tuesday, killing and wounding scores of people, as a European capital was again locked down amid heightened security threats. Many others have been reported missing.
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Alphonse Lyoura, a baggage handler at the airport, said, “It’s frightful; Belgium doesn’t deserve this”.
“She was a woman who used to regularly take the metro and who should be among the victims of the metro [attack] but the violence of the blast has made victims unrecognizable”, Lupi said.
“She was a very active woman”, Lady Sidney Jouany, a friend of Ruiz’s, told the New York Times. “California time. That is how we found out”. “That one struck with more force, as the ceiling began to fall in, and people were falling to the ground”.
Perhaps one of the most poignant stories is that of Adelma Tapia Ruiz, a Peruvian, who died in one of the airport blasts within yards of her twin daughters, Maureen and Alondra, aged three. She was at the airport with her husband, Christophe Delcambe, and their twin four-year-old daughters, Maureen and Alondra.
The Peruvian national was killed during the attack on Brussels International Airport, Peru’s Foreign Ministry said in a statement.
This is the emerging picture of the hundreds of people killed or wounded in the triple bomb attack in Brussels on Tuesday.
However, the missing two could still be among the dead as Belgian authorities have difficulty identifying victims.
Later, the crowd observed a minute of silence, while the nation itself marks three days of mourning for victims of the attack.
This comes as one British man is still missing, after he was believed to be travelling on the metro. Terrified passengers had to flee through darkened tunnels to safety.
It said: “It comes with vast sadness that we announce the death of Léopold Hecht, a law student”. “In this time of tragedy, this black moment for our country, I appeal to everyone to remain calm but also to show solidarity”. It was the bloodiest terror assault in Belgium’s history. Airports across Europe – and in the NY area – tightened security.
French Prime Minister Manuel Valls yesterday said 10 French nationals had been injured, four of them seriously.
NSFW Photos: Brussels attacks.
Abdeslam was supposed to carry out a suicide bombing during the Paris attacks, Weiss said, but “by all accounts, he seems to have chickened out”. Meanwhile, the world looks on with sympathy and grief for Brussels in the wake of the attacks as information emerges about the Brussels attacks victims.
Two Belgians, a Peruvian woman, and an unidentified Moroccan woman were the first to be publicly confirmed dead.
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“You can feel the fear on the streets today”, said Souheil, 21, who was taking the train Wednesday morning to his internship at the European Commission, near where the explosion at the Maelbeek metro station detonated Tuesday.
