BRUSSELS – Suicide bombers who blew themselves up in Brussels were originally considering an attack on a nuclear site in Belgium, but arrests started last week may have forced them switch to targets in the Belgian capital, the DH newspaper said.
At least 28 people were killed and dozens more injured as coordinated terrorist attacks rocked the Brussels airport and subway system during rush hour Tuesday morning.
At least explosions were heard in the Brussels Airport at about 8:00AM local time. Numerous news agencies are reporting the death toll in the combined attacks in Brussels as 23.
Tuesday’s terror attacks in Brussels, Belgium, have begun to affect the world of European sports, including Israel’s soccer team, currently abroad ahead of a friendly match against Croatia.
Deadly explosions ripped through Belgium early Tuesday, killing at many as 23 people at the Brussels Airport and a metro station four days after authorities captured Paris attacker Salah Abdelslam.
BRUSSELS – The top suspect in last year’s Paris attacks told investigators after he was captured that he was planning new operations from Brussels and possibly had access to several weapons, Belgium’s foreign minister said Sunday.
BRUSSELS — As the net closed in around Salah Abdeslam, Europe’s No. 1 fugitive was holed up, apparently anonymous, in an apartment in the place he knows best, the Brussels neighborhood of Molenbeek, a locale favored by several of the Paris attackers.
Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam has been shot and wounded in an ongoing raid in the Molenbeek area of Brussels, according to Belgian media reports.
Explosions and gunshots have been heard n the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek.
Armed Belgian police, with French support, were hunting one or more gunmen who wounded three officers during a raid on Tuesday in Brussels linked to the investigation of November’s Islamist attacks in Paris, officials said.