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Dozens dead in Brussels
Photo courtesy of cnn.com
Terror attacks in Brussels, the capital of Belgium, left more than 30 people dead and more than 100 injured. The Islamic State (ISIS) claimed responsibility for the attacks.
BY MAX CREAGER Staff Writer
undetonated on the airport premises, and security services Two bombs went off in the destroyed the device. The third Zaventem airport in Brussels at 8 bomber is still at large, with ina.m. Tuesday, followed by anoth- vestigators working to track er explosion an hour later in the down the suspected bomber on Maelbeek metro station near the the run. The Islamic State (ISIS) European Union headquarters. It is estimated that the airport claimed credit for the attacks, attacks left 14 dead and 81 in- issuing a statement through the jured and the subway attacks left Amaq Agency. The statement said that 20 dead and 100 injured. Among the injured in the Belgium is, “a country participatairport terminal were nine ing in the international coalition Americans, including a U.S. ser- against the Islamic State.â€? Speculation emerged about YLFH PHPEHU DQG Ă€YH PHPEHUV whether the attacks were linked of his family. The two explosions in the air- to the arrest of Salah Abdeslam, port took place in the departure a key suspect in last year’s Paris hall after reports of shots being attacks, who was arrested in the Belgian capital. Ă€UHG DQG VKRXWV LQ $UDELF These speculations aren’t con/DWHU LW ZDV FRQĂ€UPHG WKDW DQ AK-47 was found in the airport Ă€UPHG EXW FRPH DW D WLPH RI FRQtinued threats from ISIS that they terminal. 2IĂ€FLDO VRXUFHV VD\ WKDW DW established terrorist “cellsâ€? within least one of the bombs set off in the European Union (EU). Terrorist cells are groups the airport was a suicide attack. Later a third bomb was found of terrorists who divide power
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they can maintain the borders and security of the EU, and many have claimed, including U.S. foreign policy analyst Ian Bremmer, that terror attacks should not come as a surprise. “These terrorist attacks that hit the airport and the metro, not a surprise sadly, they have been expecting and been on highest alert,â€? Bremmer said. “We have QRZ VHHQ D QXPEHU RI VLJQLĂ€FDQW terrorist attacks across Europe ‌ we’re going to see more of it over the course of this year.â€? Details of the investigation are continually in development, however some are sensitive. In response to CNN’s status update request in regards to the manhunt for the third bomber, Belgium’s interior minister Jan Jambom said, “It’s very dangerous to give details from the investigation because what we don’t want is to alert, maybe, terrorists that are still active in this country.â€?