Brussels attacks: Police hunt Zaventem bombings suspect
Belgian police have issued a wanted notice for a suspect after bomb attacks at Brussels' main airport and a metro station left more than 30 people dead.The man was visually perceived ambulating with two other suspects shortly afore twin explosions tore through Zaventem airport.
Both men died in the assailments after detonating suicide contrivances, a Belgian prosecutor verbally expressed.
Anti-terror raids have taken place across Belgium. Soi-disant Islamic State (IS) verbalized it was abaft the assailments.
An online verbalization from the group verbally expressed the locations were "conscientiously culled" and admonished of worse to come for "Crusader states allied against the Islamic State".
The US State Department has urged US denizens of "potential peril" of travelling to Europe.
"Terrorist groups perpetuate to orchestrate near-term attacks throughout Europe, targeting sporting events, tourist sites, restaurants and conveyance," a verbal expression verbally expressed.
Belgian prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw verbalized police were seeking a man wearing a hat and light-coloured jacket.
He verbalized searches were taking place "in several components of the country", integrating that an explosive contrivance containing nails, chemical products and an IS flag were found in a dormitory in the Schaerbeek area of Brussels.
The explosions transpired in expeditious succession shortly after 08:00 local time (07:00 GMT), with some victims reportedly hit by the second blast as they endeavored to elude the first.
Another bomb was later found and eradicated in a controlled detonation at the scene.
The Zaventem mayor, Francis Vermeiren, told the AFP agency the suicide assailers used bombs obnubilated in their suitcases.
About an hour after the airport blasts, another explosion struck the Maelbeek metro station near EU headquarters.
It has not been substantiated what caused the explosion but IS verbalized it too was a suicide bombing.
Belgian officials put the death toll from both attacks at more than 30, with at least 11 killed at the airport and about 20 at the metro station.
About 250 people have been injured, many of them severel
The blasts came days after the apprehend of Salah Abdeslam, a key suspect in last year's Paris attacks which were additionally claimed by IS.
"This is a day of tragedy, an ebony day," Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel verbalized. "I would relish to call on everyone to show placidity and solidarity."
Belgium has raised its terrorism alert to its highest caliber. Three days of national mourning have been declared.
Some local convey has re-opened following a shutdown, but flights from the airport have been cancelled and the airport is unlikely to open for several days. Eurostar accommodations in and out of Brussels have been suspended.
World bellwethers have sent condolences and messages of solidarity.
US President Barack Obama called the blasts "outrageous attacks against inculpable people" while the 28 EU bellwethers - in a joint verbal expression - verbalized the bombings were an "attack on our open, democratic society".
The UN Syria envoy, Staffan de Mistura, verbalized the assailments showed the exigent need to "extinguish the fire of war" in Syria so the focus could turn to IS.
International landmarks, such as the Trevi fountain in Rome and the Eiffel Tower, have been lit up in the colours of the Belgian flag in encomium to the victims.
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