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Belgian police announced wanted man filmed by CCTV cameras Zaventem International Airport. He is suspected of involvement in the bombing at the airport and metro in Brussels that killed at least 34 people and ranivshih 250.
The man was captured camera surveillance, when he went with the cart next to the two men shortly before how at the airport two explosions. According to the representative of the Belgian prosecutor’s office, his two companions blown themselves by activating the suicide belts
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The responsibility for these attacks took over the extremist group “Islamic State”, banned in . Russia and many other countries
in the application group, appeared on the Internet, it is said that the place for explosions “were carefully chosen,” and contained a threat against the “Crusader nations united against the” Islamic state “: the worst is yet to come.
The prosecutor Belgium Freder Van Leeuw said that the police are looking for a man in a hat and a light jacket, which is seen at the airport just before the explosion.
According to him, in several parts of the country are searched. He added that police found in an apartment in the Brussels district of Schaerbeek explosive device, packed with nails, chemicals and IG flag.
The prosecutor said that the explosions at the airport and the metro were committed, apparently, suicide bombers.
Black day
The explosions at the airport thundered one after another on Tuesday, shortly after 8 am, Brussels time. Some were in the airport hit by the second explosion, when they tried to escape after the first.
In another device was found in the airport Zaventem, which was destroyed by controlled explosion.
According to the mayor of Zaventem, explosives were in the suitcase that carried on trucks bombers.
after about an hour after explosions at the airport another blast at the metro station “Maalbek”, located near the EU headquarters.
According to official reports, the death toll was more than 30 people. At least 11 were killed at the airport, about 20 victims of the explosion in the subway.
About 250 people were injured, many of them seriously injured.
Four days before the explosions in Brussels was arrested Salah Abdeslam, a key suspect in the terrorist attacks in Paris in November of last year, responsibility for which has also taken the grouping “Islamic state”.
“This is a tragic day, rainy day, – said the Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel -. I urge everyone to remain calm and solidarity” .
In Belgium introduced a high degree of terrorist threat. The country has declared three days of mourning.
After a short break in part earned local transport, but flights from Zaventem airport canceled, and the airport is unlikely to be opened in the next few days.
The company Eurostar canceled trains Brussels and from Brussels.
Attack on openness and democracy
World leaders have expressed to the Belgian nation his condolences and made with words of solidarity.
US President Barack Obama has called the incident “outrageous attack on innocent people”.
The leaders of the 28 EU member states issued a joint statement, which states that the bombings were “an attack on our open democratic society”.
the UN special envoy on Syria, Stefan de Mistura said that the attacks demonstrated the urgent need to “put out the fire of war” in Syria to shift attention the fight against IG.
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