(Brussels Times) Belgium paid tribute on Tuesday to victims of terrorist attacks, including those lost during the attacks that rocked the country six years ago in Brussels and Zaventem.
On 22 March 2016, a double attack took place in Belgium, first at Brussels airport in Zaventem where terrorists exploded two suitcase bombs in the departures, and later at the Brussels metro station of Maelbeek in the European quarter, where a bomb exploded on a metro train. A total of 32 people died, while more than 340 were severely injured.
During Tuesday’s subdued commemoration, held on the attacks’ sixth anniversary, the names of all victims of terrorist acts in Belgium and all Belgian victims of terrorist acts abroad — a total of 49 people — were read out loud at a monument created for them in Rue de la Loi in Brussels.
