布鲁塞尔遭连环炸弹袭击 比利时举国悲痛
布鲁塞尔依然悲痛悼念着于周二炸弹中的丧生的人们。这次恐怖袭击发生在扎芬特姆机场和Maelbeek地铁站,34人死亡。
Brussels is still in grief, mourning the victims of the deadly bombings on Tuesday. Terrorist attacks at Zaventem airport and Maelbeek metro station killed at least 34 people. The attacks were claimed by the Islamic State group. Three suicide bombers have been identified.
Brussels is a city in mourning. United in grief, people gathered to pay tribute to the people who were killed and wounded in Tuesday's terrorist attacks. There is a sense of shock, and sadness.
In reality, the attack could have been considerably worse. The Belgian prosecutor said a third unexploded bomb was by far the biggest device and had that exploded any more people could have been killed.
Police have named two of the attackers as brothers Khalid and Ibrahim el-Bakraoui. 27 year-old, Khalid blew himself up at Maelbeek metro station. 29 year-old Ibrahim - seen here in the middle of this image - was one of the airport suicide bombers. The man on the left also blew himself up.
The third man is on the run. The Belgian media has identified him as 24 year-old Najim Laachraoui. The authorities here haven't confirmed that. It's believed Laachraoui made the bombs used in last November's Paris attacks.
Across Europe there were expression of solidarity for Belgium. Particularly in France which was twice the target of terror attacks last year, one of which was planned in Brussels. Tuesday attacks may be linked.
But the French Prime Minister said Belgium authorities should not be expected to shoulder the blame and that all of Europe is responsible for rising extremism.
"We closed our eyes - everywhere in Europe, including France - to the progression of extremist ideas Salafism neighborhoods, which through a combination of drug trafficking and radical Islamism - perverted, and I'll use this word again, a part of the youth," he said.
"But this is what we need to do, and I'm not here to lecture the Belgians, because I'm sure they're more than aware of this."
There is a determination in Brussels that life must go on.
But there is also a sense that a pervasive threat of terrorism will be part of that life.
This was the third terror attack in Europe in 15 months. with security services seemingly powerless to prevent them, people are acutely aware of how vulnerable they are.