Brussels central train station was evacuated for about an hour on Sunday because of a suspicious suitcase amid heightened security fears in the Belgian capital after a huge anti-terror operation led to three men being charged with terrorism offenses.
The suitcase later turned out to be a false alarm but shows Belgium’s high state of alert as the Euro 2016Read more
Police have arrested a man who was seen on security footage next to Khalid El Bakraoui, the suicide attacker who detonated a bomb in the Brussels metro, The Daily Mail reported on Friday.
The federal prosecutor's office did not confirm the arrest.
De Standaard newspaper said the man, whom it did not name, was arrested after a policeman recognized himRead more
Three suicide bombers who struck Brussels airport and a metro train in attacks claimed by the Islamic State were identified, as the manhunt for a fourth suspect whose suitcase bomb failed to detonate intensified.
Prosecutors said brothers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui had carried out attacks at Zaventem airport and Maalbeek metro station, while bomb-making expert Najim Laachraoui was identifiedRead more
Belgium's federal prosecutor confirmed on Wednesday that two brothers carried out suicide attacks at Brussels airport and on a metro train that killed 31 people and wounded 270.
Ibrahim El Bakraoui blew himself up in the check-in hall of Zaventem airport while Khalid El Bakraoui attacked a metro train at Maalbeek station near the EU headquarters, Frederic van Leeuw toldRead more