Over 120 kg of explosives used in Brussels attacks, court learns

(Brussels Times) The Brussels Court of Assizes, which is currently presiding over the trial of suspects involved in the Brussels terror attacks at the Maelbeek metro station and Zaventem Airport, listened to the testimony of an expert who was able to trace the equipment used by the IS militants in their 2016 attack.

The investigators revealed the detailed instructions that the terror suspects had received for the use of the powerful explosive TATP, of which traces were found in an apartment raided by police on Rue Max Roos in Schaerbeek. The court also began to present its first observations made at one of the terrorists’ hideouts on Rue du Dries in Forest, the Belga News Agency reports.

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