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Brussels blasts: what we know

What we know so far about the explosions at Brussels airport.

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BRUSSELS UNDER ATTACK:

- Attacks claimed by IS, warning of more

- 31 dead, more than 200 wounded

- two blasts at airport, third bomb not activated, defused by police

- blast on metro train at Maelbeek station

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- three men captured on CCTV at airport, two killed in suicide bombings

- suicide bombers named as brothers Khalid and Brahim El Bakraoui

- third man Najim Laachraoui captured in Brussels suburb of Anderlecht

- first victim identified as Peruvian mother of two Adelma Tapia Ruiz, 37

- three days of mourning in Belgium

- memorial at Place de la Bourse in front of Brussels stock exchange

- minute's silence to be observed at noon local time (2200 AEDT)

- heightened security at all European airports

- Brussels public transport services back on line

- airport, metro still closed


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