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On 22 March 2016, two coordinated terrorist attacks in and close to Brussels, Belgium, were carried out by the Islamic State (IS). Two suicide bombers detonated bombs at Brussels Airport in Zaventem just outside Brussels, and one detonated a bomb on a train leaving Maelbeek/Maalbeek metro station in the city's European Quarter.
The blasts at the airport and metro station occurred four days after the arrest of a suspected participant in November militant attacks in Paris. ISIS claims Brussels attacks that kill at least 30 ...
On the nearby Rue du Marché aux Herbes / Grasmarkt, another explosion could be heard as a result of a controlled detonation of a suspected vehicle by the Belgian bomb squad. [ 21 ] The incident was used as an argument by advocates of stronger civil oversight within the Belgian political establishment to extend the mandate of soldiers ...
24 May 2014: Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting. ISIS directed attack on the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels by a French national in contact with ISIS. [15] 2016. 22 March 2016: 2016 Brussels bombings. Two ISIS suicide bombings occurred at Brussels Airport in Zaventem, and one at Maalbeek metro station in central Brussels. [16]
Twenty of the 22 people on board were killed. The aircraft was operating an international scheduled passenger flight from Zaventem Airport, Brussels, Belgium to Heathrow. [70] 21 April – a British European Airways Vickers Viking G-AIVE crashed into a mountain in Ayrshire, Scotland, no injuries to the 20 on board.
Islamic State claimed responsibility for suicide bomb attacks on Brussels airport and a rush-hour metro train in the Belgian capital on Tuesday which killed at least 30 people, with police hunting ...
The 1979 Brussels bombing was an attack carried out by volunteers belonging to the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) against a British Army band on the Grand-Place/Grote Markt, the central square of Brussels, Belgium, on 28 August 1979. [1] The bombing injured seven bandsmen and eleven civilians, [2] and caused extensive damage. [1]
Bomb disposal personnel from the Japanese Ground Self Defense Force determined that the explosion was caused by an American 500-pound bomb that was likely dropped during a World War II air raid.