Brussels Bombing, Terrorist Attack in Belgium shakes the World

Where is brussels? What is happening in Belgium? Concerned people of the world has been asking since the news of a terrorist attack in a brussels airport and metro broke out. The terrorist attacked an airport and a metro station in the capital of Belgium on Wednesday morning leaving at least 31 persons dead.

Isis has claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying through its affiliated news agency Amaq that its fighters carried out “a series of bombings with explosive belts and devices”.  Isis later released an updated communique, threatening other nations allied against it that “what is coming is worse and more bitter”.

The bombings came days after Belgian officials warned of possible attacks following the arrest in a Brussels shootout on Friday of Salah Abdeslam, the only known survivor of 10 Islamist attackers who killed 130 people in a string of suicide bombings and shootings in Paris in November.

Meanwhile, Authorities have identified the two suicide bombers involved in the attack at the Brussels airport on Tuesday, a senior Belgian security source told CNN.
They are brothers Khalid and Brahim El Bakraoui, both of whom were known to police, but for organized crime, not for acts of terrorism, state broadcaster RTBF reported.

Khalid El Bakraoui rented an apartment in Brussels that was raided last week and both are suspected of having ties to the terror attacks in Paris in November, the source said.

While Belgian officials say both brothers were suicide bombers, a U.S. official briefed earlier on preliminary evidence from the investigation says authorities are looking at the possibility that one of the airport explosions may have been caused by a bomb inside a suitcase and the other was a suicide bombing.

A massive manhunt is under way in Belgium as police search for a suspected terrorist believed to have escaped the Brussels bombings after the explosives he was carrying did not detonate.

According to local reports a taxi driver has come forward after recognizing CCTV images of the three suspects as men he picked up from an apartment block and dropped off at the airport.

The report said this led police to raid an apartment block in Schaerbeek, where they discovered an explosive device filled with nails, as well as an Islamic State flag and chemicals.

The driver remembered the men had too much luggage to fit into his vehicle and were forced to leave some behind, Belgian news outlet HLN reported. He was also not allowed to assist them in unloading luggage upon arrival at the airport.

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