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Two Americans confirmed dead in Brussels attacks


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At least two Americans died in the terrorist attacks on a metro station and at the airport in Brussels, a US official has confirmed.

The official did not identify the two people but confirmed their deaths as US Secretary of State John Kerry arrived in Belgium.

Mr Kerry is holding counter-terrorism talks with European and Belgian officials and attend a memorial.

Thirty-one people died in the attacks and scores more were injured.

So-called Islamic State (IS) militant group has said it was behind the attacks.

After meeting with Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel, Mr Kerry said "United States is praying and grieving with you for the loved ones of those cruelly taken from us, including Americans, and for the many who were injured in these despicable attacks."

The families of the two people who died in the attacks on Tuesday have been informed, the official said, but did not have any more details.

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Image captionDutch national Sascha Pinczowski (pictured) was killed in the attacks along with her brother
Two Dutch nationals who had been living in New York City also died in the attacks, Belgian and Dutch authorities have confirmed.

Siblings Alexander and Sascha Pinczowski were on the phone with a relative at the Brussels airport on Tuesday when the phone went dead.

The family has said they are "grateful to have closure on this tragic situation".

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Media captionThe parents of Mason Wells, injured in the Brussels attacks, said he had narrowly avoided the Boston bombing and was in France during the Paris attacks
Mason Wells, a 19-year-old Mormon missionary from the US state of Utah, was badly injured in the attacks and is recovering in hospital.

Mr Wells narrowly escaped the Boston Marathon bombings in 2012 and was in France during November's Paris attacks.

Two other Mormon missionaries were also injured in the attacks.

The State Department has said about a dozen US citizens were injured in total.

Mr Kerry defended Belgium's counter-terrorism tactics, which have been scorned by critics as un-coordinated.

"People are jumping to conclusions," he said. "I think they are looking for things that sometimes are very difficult to analyse in the immediate aftermath of something".

He called criticism of Belgium's tactics "frantic" and "inappropriate".

All governments must improve on their efforts to stop terrorism, he said, and Brussels has made strides in the past year.

"We will not be deterred," Mr Kerry said, and said the fight against IS will be relentless. "We will come back with greater resolve - with greater strength - and we will not rest until we have eliminated your nihilistic beliefs and cowardice from the face of the Earth."

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Mason Wells, a 19-year-old Mormon missionary from the US state of Utah, was badly injured in the attacks and is recovering in hospital.

Mr Wells narrowly escaped the Boston Marathon bombings in 2012 and was in France during November's Paris attacks.
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Frenchman Plotting ‘Imminent’ Attack Is Charged With Terrorism

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The corner of Rue Max Roos and Rue Maurice Ombiaux in the Schaerbeek area of Brussels on March 22 after the attacks at an airport and a subway station. CreditBart Vanderkelen/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

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45 kilos of ammo found in Dutch flat linked to French attack plot
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© ANP/AFP/File | Police search a house in Rotterdam, on March 30, 2016, following the arrest of four terror suspects
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Around 45 kilograms (99 pounds) of ammunition were found in an apartment in the Dutch city of Rotterdam that has been linked to a foiled terror attack on France, prosecutors said Monday.

French suspect Anis Bahri was arrested at the flat in the southern port city on March 27 at France's request. He is suspected of planning an attack in France for the Islamic State group along with Reda Kriket, another suspect arrested near Paris a few days before him.

"We have found around 45 kilos of ammunition, including two types of bullets which can both be used with Kalashnikovs," Wim de Bruin, a spokesman for the national prosecutor's office said.

He said no explosives or any arms had been found.

Bahri has been fighting extradition and is in custody until Dutch authorities take a decision on whether to send him to France.

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45 kilos of ammo found in Dutch flat linked to French attack plot

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Sebastian Bellin said he was shot but there were no guns at the B.A. Bombing. He stated he was thrown 50 feet in the air from the first explosion but...later states he was running when the first explosion went off and was injured by the 2nd explosion.


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Belgian police arrest 3 in Paris terror attacks investigations

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© Virginie Lefour / Belga / AFP | Police stand outside the council chamber in Brussels on April 7, 2016 during the court appearance of Salah Abdeslam, the sole surviving suspect of the November 13 Paris attacks

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Belgian police arrested three people in a Brussels suburb on Tuesday during a new raid linked to the investigation into the November terror attacks on Paris, federal prosecutors said.
"Three people were arrested and held for questioning," a statement said, adding the raid took place in the Belgian capital's southern suburb of Uccle.

It said the raid was carried out "in the context of the investigation that the federal prosecutor opened following the attacks in Paris on November 13" which left 130 people dead and hundreds wounded.

The investigating judge will decide Wednesday whether to continue holding the three, it said, without giving any further details.

The prosecutor's office announced earlier that Belgium had charged two new suspects over the March 22 Brussels airport and metro bombings that left 32 people dead and hundreds wounded.

Paris-Brussels links

Investigators have uncovered extensive links between the Paris and Brussels attacks, both of which were claimed by the Islamic State group.

The DNA of Brussels airport suicide bomber Najim Laachraoui was, for example, found on a suicide vest recovered at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris where 90 people died on November 13.

On Friday, police netted another key Paris suspect, Mohamed Abrini, dubbed "the man in the hat" after he was seen in CCTV footage at Brussels airport shortly before the two bombers struck there.

Belgium’s prosecutor’s office said on Sunday that the Brussels attackers had originally planned another assault in France but the arrest of Paris suspect Salah Abdeslam on March 18, coupled with a massive series of police raids, made them change plans and target Belgium instead.

(FRANCE 24 with AFP)

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