The exact number of explosions that occurred in the capital of Belgium is still unknown.
A series of terrorist attacks that struck the whole world occurred in the morning of March 22 in the capital of Belgium. According to different data, about four or five explosions happened in the city. Officially, information on two devices worked in the airport building and one explosion in the subway confirmed.
Explosions at the airport
March 22 around 08:00 local time at Brussels airport there were two explosions. Passengers were evacuated from the building, railway communication with the airport was suspended. According to Skynews TV channel, explosive devices worked near American Airlines (USA) airline standards. The air harbor was closed up to the preparation of a special order.
According to the BELGA agency, shouts on the airport were heard before explosions. arabic and shooting. According to local television, later in the air harbor, there have been three led bons with explosives. The country raised the level of terrorist threat to the maximum.
Explosions in the metro
Around 09:30 local time it became known about the new attack: this time the explosion thundered in the subway. Subway began to close. It is known that the first explosion occurred at the metro station "Malbek", which is located next to the institutes of the European Union. The bomb was laid in the train carriage. According to the RTBF TV channel, Lua Street, on which this station is located is closed, sappers work on the spot.
A few minutes later, Belga reported another explosion: this time the terrorist attack occurred at the metro station "Schuman". Prime Minister Belgium Narl Michel confirmed information only about three explosions: two of them occurred at the airport, and one - in the subway.
The media reported at least four explosions in the urban subway. The third occurred at the station "Ar-Loua" close to the US Embassy. On the fourth explosion in his Twitter reported Journalist Anna Ahronheim.
Update: AT Least 4 Explosions at Different Metro Stations Across The City --- #BRUSSLES. Fire Dept.
Anna Ahronheim (@aahronheim) March 22, 2016
According to Belga agency, later another explosion occurred in Brussels in the area of \u200b\u200bDe La Lua. Other media reported that the bomb on this street discovered and blew up the police.
After the first data on the explosions of people began to evacuate at all stations of the metropolitan subway. At about 10:00, the city began to stop the movement of trams and buses. Later in Brussels, all railway stations were closed.
"The girlfriend called, said that all trains stand, the central station is closed how to get home until it is not clear. No one works, everything is shocked," said the TV channel "360" a resident of the Belgian suburbs of Elena Belyakova - de Vit.
Data on the dead
Data on the dead is not officially confirmed. According to the Belgian newspaper Dernier Heure, 12 people died as a result of terrorist attacks at the airport, more than 30 were injured. Later, the TASS with reference to the firefighters operating at the scene reported 17 dead.
"At the moment we are talking about 17 dead and several dozen of victims. The number of people who have received light injuries are very difficult to calculate. In the arrival hall, where the explosions occurred, hit the suspended ceiling," said the news agency.
According to the first data of the local police, 10 people died at the metro station at the metro station "Malbek". As of 13:43 Moscow time, the number of those who died as a result of terrorist attacks in the subway increased to 15 people. The federal prosecutor of the country Frederick Wang Lev said that it was too early to talk about the exact number of dead or affected. According to various data, the death toll is from 21 to 32 people.
"I learned from television in the morning, I was terrified, I began to call friends-friends, I didn't get through to anyone. The situation is terrible, apparently, turned off all the lines.<…> We report that, according to official data, 23 people were killed for all attacks, "Elena Belyakova, a resident of the Belgian suburodon, told the TV channel" 360 "- de Vit.
The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia Maria Zakharova stated that as a result of terrorist attacks in Brussels, the Russians were not injured.
Who is guilty
According to Reuters, a suicide bilisher was injured at Brussels airport. According to TASS, I.O. Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation of Spain José Manuel Garcia Margalo stated that the Militants of the Islamic State (IG, a terrorist organization, whose activities were prohibited in the territory of Russia) for terrorist attacks at the airport).
A few days before the terrorist attacks in Bruvele, Salah Abdezalam was detained, which, according to preliminary data, was involved in the terrorist attack in Paris. He escaped to the country in November 2015, it was possible to delay it only on March 18, 2016.
"These attacks may be a reaction to the events of the last week [detention of the organizer of the Paris terrorist attacks]. And in order to convey the message:" You have not finished being afraid, and the terrorists are not put on your knees. "They also want to give a signal to all their potential supporters," quotes M. Michael Dontinna's criminalist site "Komsomolskaya Pravda".
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When somewhere in the world, the terrorist attack occurs, the man in the street takes the happening not so close to the heart. Especially if the tragedy happens in troubled points globe: Well, exploded in the gas sector, so there is always an unstable situation, and terrorist attacks in the Middle East - the usual thing. But when the threat breathes to us in the head ...
Remember, as last year, in Nizhny Novgorod, the militants neutralized? Solded the whole area! Fortunately the terrorist attack was then prevented. But on April 3 in St. Petersburg, our cultural capital, to avoid deaths of peaceful people failed.
The whole country grieves with Peter. And I want to think that the whole world too. Because the principle of "my hut with the edge" in the case of terrorism does not work. When innocent people are dying, where it does not happen, is always a tragedy, calmly refers to which it is impossible.
Today we publish a chronicle of the largest terrorist attacks that occurred in Russia and abroad in 2016-2017.
March 22. The terrorists conducted a series of shares in Belgium. Two explosions thundered: at Brussels International Airport and the subway. More than ten people died, 35 were injured. The responsibility for the explosions was assumed by the terrorist organization IG prohibited in Russia.
11 April In the Stavropol Territory, an attack was attacked by the WDD building in the village of Novoselitsky. One of the militants exploded, two others were killed by employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Losses among police officers were not.April 19.the series of explosions thundered in the capital of Afghanistan Kabul, as a result more than 64 people died, injured more than 300.
The 1 of May Two explosions thundered in the Iraqi city of Samava. 38 people became victims of the terrorist attack, more than 80 were injured.
May 11. As a result of a series of explosions in Baghdad, 94 people were killed, 150 were injured. Responsibility for the terrorist attacks assumed the terrorist organization IG.
June 7. In the center of Istanbul, a strong explosion thundered, as a result of which 11 people were killed, 36 people were injured.
the 9th of June A series of explosions occurred in Baghdad. In the Shiite District of the capital Iraq, a suicide blew a car stuck with explosives. The second explosion thundered north of Baghdad. There, the daughterman rammed the CPP of the Iraqi army. As a result of the explosions, more than 25 people died.
June 11thin the Shiite quarter Damascus, the explosions thundered, as a result of which 16 people were killed, more than 40 were injured.
June 28. There was a series of explosions at Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul. As a result, 44 people were killed in a series of terrorist attacks, including 19 foreigners, several hundred were injured.
3 July large terrorist attack occurred in the center of the Iraqi capital. The mined car exploded in the center of Baghdad, where a large number of restaurants are located. The victims of the terrorist attack were 292 people.
July 8 A major terrorist attack occurred in the Iraqi city of Balad, as a result of which 40 people died, about 70 were injured. Responsibility for the explosion took the terrorist organization IG.
the 14 th of July The resonant terrorist attack occurred in France. A suicide bomber on the truck rammed the crowd of people on the embankment in Nice. As a result, 84 people were killed, many of which were tourists. Responsibility for the terrorist attack was assumed to the organization IG.
From December 31, 2016 to January 8, 2017 In the capital of Iraq there was a series of terrorist attacks organized by IG. As a result of shares, more than 110 people died, 249 were injured.
1st of January A single terrorist with firearms in his hands attacked the nightclub in Istanbul. As a result, 39 people were killed, more than 60 were injured.
5 January In the province of Latakia, under the control of the Syrian government, the terrorist attack occurred. The terrorist drove on the mined car in the crowd of passersby, as a result of which 15 people were killed, more than 40 were injured.
13th of January In the capital of Syria Damascus, a terrorist attack occurred, as a result of which at least seven people died, ten was injured. The suicide person activated the "Belt of Shahid", while in the densely populated area of \u200b\u200bDamascus.
February 3rd In Paris, a terrorist with two machete in his hands, shouting "Allah Akbar", attacked the police patrol. In response, the servicemen opened fire on the terrorist. He received severe injured and was hospitalized. The French authorities qualified what happened as a terrorist act.
25 February In the city of Homs near the military base of the Syrian Army there was a series of terrorist attacks, the responsibility for which the grouping "Jebhat An-Nusra" took (prohibited in Russia). As a result of the action of militants, 42 people were killed, several dozen were injured.
March 22.in London, the terrorist on the car drove into the crowd of passersby on the Westminster Bridge, after which they attacked the policeman with a knife. As a result of the terrorist attack, more than ten people died. The terrorist organization of the II took responsibility for the attack.
March 24 In the Chechen Republic, the database of Rosgvardia was committed. Six military died, three wounded. Six militants are eliminated.
April 3 - Bomb explosion in the subway of St. Petersburg. According to preliminary data, 11 people were killed, 45 hospitalized. In St. Petersburg from April 4, a three-day mourning was declared.
The explosions, thundered in the morning at the airport, and at the metro station in the capital of Belgium, 34 people have already taken their lives. More than a hundred victims are in hospitals, terrestrial and air traffic with Brussels have practically stopped, and residents of the capital of Belgium are not recommended to leave at home. About what happened in the Black Tuesday in Brussels, in the Reuters agency's photofrotection.
Airport visitors are sitting near the buses near the explosion at the airport, Brussels, Belgium, March 22, 2016. Photo: Francois Lenoir / Reuters 
The windows are knocked out by an explosion at the airport of Conventions, Brussels, Belgium, March 22, 2016. Photo: Francois Lenoir / Reuters 
Emergency services at the site of the explosion at the airport of Conventions, Brussels, Belgium, March 22, 2016. Photo: Francois Lenoir / Reuters 
The policeman points out the direction of ambulance car, hurrying to the explosion site at one of the metro stations in Brussels. Screenshot from video, March 22, 2016. Photo: Reuters TV 
People arrive in the crisis center after explosions at the airport of Conventions, Brussels, Belgium, March 22, 2016. Photo: Francois Lenoir / Reuters 
Employees of the airport manager, in which the explosion occurred, hugging on joys during evacuation from the airport. Brussels, Belgium, March 22, 2016. Photo: Francois Lenoir / Reuters 
Canceled Flight from Brussels Airlica Airlines is displayed on the scoreboard in the terminal of 5 Heathrow Airport in London, United Kingdom, March 22, 2016. Photo: Luke Mac Gregor / Reuters 
Belgian soldiers are facing the closed entrance to the Miyi railway station during an anxiety an orange level of danger introduced in Brussels after terrorist attacks at the airport and at the metro stations. Belgium, March 22, 2016. Photo: Charles Platiau / Reuters 
People leave the explosion place at the airport of Conventions, Brussels, Belgium, March 22, 2016. Photo: Francois Lenoir / Reuters 
Police inspects people at the checkpoint before entering the MIDI railway station. An orange danger level was introduced in Belgium after a terrorist attack in the capital of Belgium on Tuesday, March 22, 2016 Photo: Christian Hartmann / Reuters 
Belgian police and emergency service staff provide security on Ryu de la Loy Street after explosion to the subway at Maelbeek Station in Brussels, Belgium, March 22, 2016. Photo: Vincent Kessler / Reuters 
People in the blankets leave the explosion place at the airport close to Brussels, Belgium, March 22, 2016. Photo: Francois Lenoir / Reuters 
Armed police guarding Downing Street in London, United Kingdom, March 22, 2016. British Prime Minister David Cameron stated that he will lead the meeting of the Crisis Committee on the response to terrorist attacks in Brussels. Photo: Eddie Keo / Reuters 
Airport visitors, including small childThey are evacuated by bus from the explosion site at the airport to the Crisis Center. Brussels, Belgium, March 22, 2016. Photo: Francois Lenoir / Reuters 
The woman places flowers to victims of terrorist attacks in Brussels in front of the Belgian Embassy in Moscow, Russia, March 22, 2016. Photo: Maxim Snakers / Reuters 
Passengers communicate with armed police officers at the Saint Pancras railway station in the center of London, after Eurostar canceled all trains to Brussels due to the potential threat of terrorist acts. London, United Kingdom, March 22, 2016. Photo: Andrew Winning / Reuters 
People lay flowers to victims of terrorist attacks in Brussels in front of the Belgian embassy in Berlin, Germany, March 22, 2016. Photo: Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters 
Flag of the European Union is lowered on the flagpole of parliament in Vienna in memory of the victims of today's attacks in Brussels on the top of parliament in Vienna, Austria, March 22, 2016 Reuters / Leonhard Foeger 
A police officer from the Special Response Forces is at the post office of Midi after explosions in Brussels, Belgium, March 22, 2016 Photo: Christian Hartmann / Reuters 
Flowers and candles in memory of the victims of terrorist attack in Brussels, stand at the steps of the Belgian embassy in Berlin, Germany, March 22, 2016. Photo: Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters
In the Federal Prosecutor's Office, Belgium reported that a man with a suicide bonus, which was neutralized at the Central Station of Brussels, died, reports LE SOIR. "We can confirm that the suspect has received a fatal injury, he is dead," the department said.
Photo report: Police neutralized unknown after an explosion in the center of Brussels
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A man whose personality has not yet been established, about 21.00 on Tuesday, June 20, he actually carried out an explosive device at the Cass Station in Brussels. It happened according to eyewitness, "a small explosion".
According to reporters an eyewitness of the incident, an employee of a railway company, before that, a man shouting slogans of radical Islamists, and then said Allah Akbar! " The explosion led to fire. Next to the cash registers were a military patrol, which opened fire on the terrorist. However, according to the RTBF television channel,
the military began to follow a suspicious man immediately after he entered the building. The explosion thundered at the moment when they decided to approach the unknown.
The terrorist died from the wound marks in the hospital a few hours later. No one has suffered. According to the representative of the prosecutor's office, Erica Van der Sipte, "This incident qualifies as a terrorist attack." Increase the level of terrorist threat in the country did not become, so it remains on the third mark of four ("possible and probable danger of the terrorist attack").
At the end of December 2016, the law enforcement agencies of Brussels were able to prevent one more terrorist attack. Police officers discovered a homemade explosive device near the building of the Turkish organization in the Brussels commune of Scharbek. A bomb made on the basis of a small gas cylinder and placed in a plastic bag was located on the sidewalk near the house number 72 on Yosafat Street. The arrived security forces hurried the quarter, and people were invacuated from nearby homes temporarily placed in the local concert hall. After some time, the employees of the mobile laboratory of the federal police have neutralized an explosive device.
Exactly a month later, the Belgian police during the special operation in Brussels detained seven people suspected of ties with terrorists. According to the prosecutor's office, detainees may be associated with militants in Syria.
The law enforcement bodies of Belgium began to pay special attention to anti-terrorism after the tragic events happening on March 22, 2016. Then the terrorist acts took place in Brussels, which were charged with 32 people.
Two suicide siters associated with the terrorist organization "Islamic state" (IG, prohibited in Russia), organized explosions in Brussels International Airport. Then another undermined himself at the metro station "Malbek" in Eurochavatal. The airport of the city completely stopped receiving aircraft. The building collapsed part suspended ceiling and glass facade of the terminal. The fire began in the room, everything was filled with smoke and dust.
Police immediately began evacuating the airport, entry into its territory was blocked. After the explosion in the subway in Belgium, mobile communication interruptions began. When it became clear that Brussels was subjected to a coordinated terrorist attack, the city was discontinued in the city and almost all public transport, school began to close, it was announced the closure of boundaries.
Due to a series of terrorist attacks, more than 320 people were injured.
Later it turned out that the Suspect in the organization of terrorist attacks in Brussels Mohamed Abrini over the month to explosions received from another terrorist £ 3 thousand during the "Secret Meeting" in Birmingham.
As it became known during the meeting with the participation of the jury in the Royal Court Kingston in London, who already recognized his guilt of Abrini - the so-called "man in a hat" - accompanied and coordinated suicide bosses during explosions in the subway and Brussels airport in March last year. He also admitted bonds with terrorists involved in the terrorist attack in Paris in November 2015. A person who paid the Abrini "Services", according to the investigators, was a 26-year-old shipping buffet, denying the fact of the meeting itself and in general its involvement in terrorist attacks. The second seeders coordinator - Mohammed Ali Ahmed - also recognized himself guilty.
In accordance with the text of deciphering audio development of terrorists, it turned out that the purpose of attacking Brussels Airport on March 22, 2016 was passengers of flights in the USA, Russia and Israel.
"To slow with the attack is no longer possible, it is scheduled for March 22. In the morning, flights to the USA, Russia and Israel fly out, "the terrorists said.
It was reported that the last message of the militants sent some "Emir" to Rakka on March 21, 2016.
March 22, 2016 at Brussels International Airport (Belgium) at 08.00 (10.00 Moscow time) local time. At about 08.30 (10.30 Moscow time), another explosion thundered at a train at Malbek Station in Brussels Metro.
Places of great accumulation of people in Brussels, including railway stations and metropolitan metropolitan,.
The explosions at the airport were committed by the suicide bombers by Ibrahim El-Bacraui and the guard of Laşraui. The bomb in the car's car was acting a brother Ibrahim El-Bakraui - Khalid. A deliver of suicide bombers Mohammed Abrini, who for some reason did not make a self-supersion ,.
Abrini was wanted long before Brussels terrorist attacks. He was filmed surveillance cameras at the filling station on the highway leading to Paris, two days before the terrorist attacks in the French capital. He was driving the car, which contained the main on the case of Paris terrorist attacks on November 13, 2015 - Salah Abdeslam.
Abrini admitted that it was he who was the third terrorist at Brussels airport, "man in a hat", which left on the site of the explosions luggage with explosives and disappeared. According to Abrini, his bright jacket, in which he was captured by the video surveillance camera, he threw into the garbage urn, and he sold his hat. Abrini.
In March 2017, it became known that the Belgian police found a recording of a conversation between suicide bombers who had arranged explosions at the airport, which followed that their goal.
The investigation found that the explosive used with the terrorist attacks in Paris and Brussels helped to make a citizen of Syria - a leaving from Aleppo, who arrived in Europe under the name of Ahmad Alkhald. In particular, he helped manufacture vests with explosives Nazi Laashrai. According to media, Alkhald, its current location is unknown.
According to the Ministry of Economy of the Kingdom, as a result of the terrorist attacks on March 22 in Brussels, losses for the economy of Belgium amounted to about 935.2 million euros or about 0.1% of national GDP in the first quarter of 2016. In the Brussels metropolitan region, the income of companies in the specified period decreased by 122.5 million euros. Most, as well as the sphere of massive entertainment events.
According to media reports, financial damage for Brussels International Airport as a result of terrorist attacks on March 22 without assessing insurance companies -.
On February 24, 2017, the Government of Belgium approved the draft law, according to which the Kingdom Citizens, wounded with the terrorist attacks in their homeland and abroad, will receive benefits comparable to those who already have victims during World War II. The victims of the terrorist attacks on March 22, 2016 in Brussels will be compensated for medical expenses and pay pensions depending on the degree of disability. In the event of a complete inability to normal life, pension provision. On the victims of the terrorist attacks in Belgium, the same system will not be distributed.
Material prepared on the basis of information RIA Novosti
