'NEGARA ini adalah dalam KEJUTAN': Saksi menggambarkan suasana selepas letupan MAALBEEK . . .

JamaliahYusofYacob - Belgium adalah dalam keadaan terkejut ekoran serangan maut ke atas ibu kota Brussels, wartawan bebas dan saksi letupan di Metro, Simon Marks, telah memberitahu RT.

RT: Anda menyaksikan letupan yang sebenar. Beritahu kami apa yang anda lihat, silakan.

BACA lagi: Sekurang-kurangnya 20 dilaporkan terbunuh dalam letupan di Maelbeek stesen metro berhampiran pejabat EU (READ MORE: At least 20 reportedly killed in blasts at Maalbeek metro station near EU offices)

Simon Marks: Saya amat berdekatan apabila letupan bom meletup di stesen Maalbeek Metro, yang terletak hanya beberapa ratus meter dari institusi Eropah di Brussels. Saya tiba berhampiran bangunan Majlis Eropah di mana ketua-ketua negara sering mengadakan mesyuarat. Anda boleh melihat asap keluar dari pintu masuk stesen Metro. Terdapat ramai orang yang cedera, dan mengalir ke luar ke jalan. Tidak lama selepas itu terdapat banyak paramedik, polis, tentera, tentera yang tiba di tempat kejadian jelas untuk merawat mangsa yang cedera. Tidak lama selepas jalan-jalan dan kawasan sekitarnya telah dikepung dan akhbar itu telah ditolak ke belakang di luar perimeter keselamatan.

RT: Bolehkah anda memberitahu kami sedikit lebih lanjut mengenai atmosfera. Apa yang ia seperti di bandar?

BACA LAGI: 1st time pernah: Tertinggi amaran tahap keganasan di Belgium, sempadan dilaporkan ditutup (READ MORE: 1st time ever: Highest level terror alert in Belgium, borders reportedly closed)

SM: Negara ini terkejut, itu kenyataan yang jelas. Kerajaan telah mengumumkan bahawa negara ini adalah keganasan yang paling tinggi, tahap amaran amaran 4. Ini sedang berlaku hanya beberapa hari selepas polis Perancis dan Belgium ditangkap Salah Abdeslam, yang merupakan suspek utama dalam serangan pengganas Paris yang berlaku tahun lepas . Terdapat 130 terbunuh ketika itu. Beliau adalah seorang rakyat Belgium. Pihak berkuasa telah memburunya selama 4 bulan sekarang dan ini akan datang di tengah-tengah itu. Saya mungkin menambah bahawa mereka telah mencari dia pada permulaan dan selepas kejadian serangan Paris, Brussels sekali lagi pada tahap 4 keganasan berjaga-jaga. Ini adalah sesuatu bandar ini berkembang digunakan untuk setiap kali. Dalam kes ini jelas nyawa telah terkorban, menjadikan keadaan lebih realistik.

RT: Mr Marks, anda kelihatan sangat sihat sekarang, tetapi anda semakin hampir kepada yang cedera dan mungkin kritikal. Adakah anda fikir anda telah datang kepada terma dengan itu?

BACA lagi: serangan Brussels: #StopIslam trend di seluruh DUNIA sebagai Twitter bertindak balas dengan pengeboman (READ MORE: Brussels attacks: #StopIslam trending worldwide as Twitter reacts to bombings) 

SM: Saya tidak dalam Metro sebenar. Saya hanya di luar stesen Metro. Nasib baik saya bukan dalam Metro. Saya biasanya menaiki bas ke tempat kerja, saya menggunakan pengangkutan awam. Tetapi saya juga seorang wartawan, jadi saya cuba untuk mendapatkan lebih dekat ke tempat kejadian untuk melihat apa yang berlaku apabila saya menyedari serangan yang begitu rapat.

RT: Mr Marks, anda sendiri adalah seorang pengembara kerap ke EU. Sekarang zon bebas visa pelancongan Schengen adalah di bawah banyak tekanan kerana ini macam insiden keganasan di Paris tahun lepas dan kini di Brussels. tahap keselamatan berada di tertinggi pada masa ini terdapat di mana anda berada. Adakah anda fikir ini boleh menjadi salah satu paku terakhir di keranda zon perjalanan visa bebas? Atau adakah anda berfikir kompromi boleh didapati antara keselamatan rakyat dan kebebasan bergerak?

SM: kawasan Schengen akan datang di bawah tekanan yang besar. Anda mempunyai 2 sebab: Pertama, krisis penghijrahan, yang lain adalah ancaman pengganas. Sudah ada beberapa sempadan negara yang menjalankan pemeriksaan. Saya fikir terdapat 7 negara sekarang yang telah melaksanakan kawalan sempadan. Jelas sekali sempadan antara Macedonia dan Greece umpama dikunci berikutan krisis pemindahan. Terdapat kumpulan-kumpulan politik di sebelah kanan, terutamanya, yang mengatakan bahawa sempadan terbuka, pergerakan bebas adalah tiket percuma untuk pengganas berpotensi yang ingin melancarkan serangan di Eropah. Terdapat banyak proses pemikiran berlaku. Suruhanjaya Eropah berfikir dengan teliti tentang bagaimana untuk mungkin pembaharuan bahagian-bahagian tertentu kawasan Schengen, tetapi ini adalah salah satu nilai teras dalam EU dan untuk menyerah pada ia bukanlah sesuatu yang akan berlaku esok. Ia amat menarik untuk melihat apa yang berlaku dalam kumpulan sayap kanan yang menggunakan ini sebagai alasan saya rasa untuk bercakap menentang Eropah dan integrasi yang lebih. Sudah tentu ini akan menambah minyak kepada api bagi mereka menyeru akhir kawasan Schengen dan pergerakan bebas.

Simon Marks @MarksSimon

Soldier tells me there are several injured at metro station near European institutions

4:36 PM - 22 Mar 2016 · Brussels, Belgium, België

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#Brussels reacts: People write messages against violence and for peace at central square http://on.rt.com/77tq 

12:49 AM - 23 Mar 2016

‘The country is in shock’: Witness describes atmosphere after Maalbeek blast

Belgium is in a state of shock following the fatal attacks on its capital Brussels, a freelance journalist and witness of the explosion in the Metro, Simon Marks, has told RT.

RT: You witnessed the actual blast. Tell us what you saw, please.

READ MORE: At least 20 reportedly killed in blasts at Maalbeek metro station near EU offices

Simon Marks: I was very nearby when the bomb explosion went off at the Maalbeek Metro station, which is located just a few hundred meters from the European institutions in Brussels. I was arriving near the European Council building where heads of states often hold meetings. You could see smoke coming out of the entrance of the Metro station. There were many people that were injured, pouring out into the street. Soon afterwards there were many paramedics, police, military, soldiers arriving at the scene obviously to treat the wounded. Soon after the streets and the surrounding area were cordoned off and the press was pushed back beyond the safety perimeter.

RT: Can you tell us a bit more about the atmosphere. What’s it like in the city?

READ MORE: 1st time ever: Highest level terror alert in Belgium, borders reportedly closed

SM: The country is in shock, that’s an obvious statement. The government has announced that the country is on the highest terror alert possible, alert level 4. This is happening just a few days after French and Belgian police arrested Salah Abdeslam, who is the key suspect in the Paris terrorist attacks that took place last year. There were 130 killed back then. He is a Belgian national. The authorities have been hunting him for four months now and this is coming in the wake of that. I might add that they were looking for him at the beginning and in the aftermath of the Paris attacks, Brussels was again on level 4 terror alert. This is something the city is growing used to in many ways. In this case obviously lives have been lost, making the situation all the more real.

RT: Mr Marks, you look very healthy right now, but you were very close to being injured and perhaps critically. Do you think you’ve come to terms with that?

READ MORE: Brussels attacks: #StopIslam trending worldwide as Twitter reacts to bombings

SM: I wasn’t in the actual Metro. I was just outside the Metro station. Luckily I wasn’t in the Metro. I usually take a bus to work, I do take public transport. But I’m also a journalist, so I tried to get closer to the scene to see what was happening when I was aware of the attack being so close.

RT: Mr Marks, you yourself are a frequent traveler to the EU. Now the Schengen visa-free travel zone is under a lot of strain because of these sorts of terror incidents in Paris last year and now in Brussels. Security levels are at the highest ever at the moment there where you are. Do you think this could be one of the final nails in the coffin of the visa-free travel zone? Or do you think a compromise could be found between security of the citizens and the freedom of movement?

SM: The Schengen area is coming under great strain. You have two reasons: one is the migration crisis, the other is terrorist threats. There are already a number of national borders which are carrying out checks. I think there are seven countries now who have implemented border controls. Obviously the border between Macedonia and Greece is sort of locked down due to the migration crisis. There are political groups on the right, particularly, who are saying that open borders, free movement is a free ticket for potential terrorists wanting to carry out attacks in Europe. There are many thought processes going on. The European Commission is thinking closely about how to perhaps reform certain parts of the Schengen area, but this is one of the core values of the EU and to give up on it is not something that is going to happen tomorrow. It’s very interesting to see what happens in right-wing groups that use this as an excuse I guess to talk up against Europe and more integration. Certainly this will add fuel to the fire for those calling for the end of the Schengen area and free movement.

READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/77uh

FlyDubai FZ981 pembantu juruterbang telah penat, tetapi 'tekanan yang besar' menjadikan beliau kerja - rakan sekerja untuk RT . . .

JamaliahYusofYacob - FlyDubai telah lama menolak sempadan dasar operasi yang waras, seorang juruterbang yang berupa bekerja untuk syarikat penerbangan itu memberitahu RT. Beliau berkata, ia menggalakkan tidak melaporkan sakit atau keletihan, seperti yang didakwa juga dengan penerbangan terhempas, Alejandro Alava.

Selepas kemalangan FZ981 penerbangan tambang murah FlyDubai di Rostov-on-Don minggu lepas, bekas juruterbang meniup wisel dalam temu bual dengan RT mengenai bagaimana syarikat itu didakwa menolak pekerjanya untuk bekerja senarai nama sibuk dan panjang, mengabaikan aduan yang ini meletakkan nyawa dalam bahaya. laporan yang kini telah disokong oleh seseorang yang mendakwa menjadi perintis FlyDubai semasa.

"Jika apa-apa, sejak [pemberi maklumat asal untuk RT] kiri, keadaan menjadi lebih buruk," juruterbang, yang tidak mahu namanya disiarkan kerana dia takut tindakan balas dari majikan, memberitahu RT. "Tekanan yang dikenakan kepada juruterbang oleh pihak pengurusan adalah amat besar."

'Saya akan terbang kerana kita memerlukan wang'

Juruterbang, yang mengatakan dia telah berkhidmat dengan syarikat itu selama bertahun-tahun, berkata skim pembayaran yang FlyDubai menggunakan tekanan meletakkan pada anak kapal tidak memanggil sakit. Seorang juruterbang yang tidak memilih untuk terbang kerana sakit atau keletihan, yang merupakan satu tindakan yang wajar dilakukan, akan kehilangan banyak wang dan boleh masuk ke dalam tempat yang benar-benar ketat di Dubai, di mana kos sara hidup adalah sangat tinggi, katanya.

"Orang terbang apabila mereka tidak layak kerana uzur, sedih. Dan mereka juga terbang dengan keletihan, "katanya. "Semua orang mempunyai sebuah keluarga, semua orang mempunyai anak-anak dan isteri dan gadai janji mereka perlu membayar. Jadi tekanan kewangan adalah tekanan peribadi."

Baca lebih lanjut: Juruterbang bekerja setengah mati ': FlyDubai pemberi maklumat berkata kemalangan yang berkaitan keletihan meramalkan (RT EKSKLUSIF) http://on.rt.com/77nm

Tekanan ini didakwa di tempat apabila FZ981 Pegawai Pertama Alejandro Alava memutuskan bahawa dia akan berada dalam penerbangan malang itu.

"Saya tahu hakikatnya dari kawan rapat isteri [Alava ini] bahawa dia tidak mahu pergi bekerja kerana dia letih. Tetapi dia berkata 'Saya perlu pergi ke tempat kerja kerana kita mempunyai kembar, kita akan memerlukan wang, "kata juruterbang.

Pilot keletihan boleh menjadi faktor yang menyumbang dalam satu kejadian yang serius. Hal ini terutama berlaku untuk penerbangan ke destinasi, di mana perkhidmatan tanah tidak mencapai taraf yang tinggi di tempat di Amerika Utara atau Eropah, juruterbang mendakwa perasan, sambil menambah bahawa FlyDubai terbang ke destinasi tersebut.

"FlyDubai terbang ke zon perang, ke Afghanistan. Kami terbang ke bahagian Afrika yang mempunyai persekitaran separa terkawal . . . ini menambah risiko tambahan. Dan apabila anda mempunyai seorang juruterbang letih yang bertujuan untuk membuat keputusan yang cepat dan tepat, anda sedang meminta masalah. FlyDubai telah menolak sempadan operasi yang wajar untuk masa yang lama-lama, "katanya.

'Budaya punitif'

Syarikat itu bukan sahaja bertukar mata apabila juruterbang masuk ke dalam kokpit dalam keadaan yang tidak terlalu baik, ia sebenarnya menggalakkan bukan laporan kejadian kecil yang disebabkan oleh keletihan dan meletakkan tekanan ke atas orang-orang yang, juruterbang yang dituntut.

"Mereka berkata tidak ada budaya punitif dan jika anda melaporkan tiada apa yang akan berlaku, tetapi ramai juruterbang telah bersandar agak tegas, dan juruterbang yang telah bercakap telah dipecat kerana itu," katanya.

"Mereka tidak dipecat sebenarnya," dia membetulkan dirinya sendiri. "Mereka bersandar pada meletak jawatan dan diberitahu bahawa mereka akan mendapatkan akhir-pd-perkhidmatan manfaat jika mereka meletakkan jawatan, atau jika tidak, mereka akan dipecat. Syarikat itu tidak suka untuk menembak orang kerana mereka tidak mahu mempunyai potensi untuk kes mahkamah atau bagi orang-orang untuk bercakap kepada pihak media."

Juruterbang berkata orang di syarikat yang digunakan untuk bergurau bahawa mereka akan perlu untuk kehilangan kapal terbang untuk apa-apa kepada perubahan.

'Semuanya berakhir di Rostov'

Suasana permusuhan diterangkan kepada RT oleh sumber-sumber FlyDubai nampaknya jelas dalam media sosial, di mana pekerja-pekerja syarikat yang didakwa bercakap antara diri mereka daripada mata awam. Salah satu komen di laman Facebook peribadi yang diterbitkan selepas kemalangan di Rostov-on-Don - tangkapan skrin yang telah dihantar oleh juruterbang yang sama untuk RT - grimly berjenaka tentang menyewa "yang Strippergramm berpakaian seperti anggota polis Rusia" untuk mesyuarat akan datang dengan ketua juruterbang.

"Saya pasti ke-29 Mac membawa wartawan untuk hari bekerja!" Kata seorang yang lain berkata, merujuk kepada mesyuarat yang akan datang.

Para pengulas seolah-olah tidak mengharapkan FlyDubai mengambil langkah-langkah untuk membetulkan dasar selepas kemalangan maut di Rusia, yang meragut 62 nyawa, termasuk 7 daripada rakan-rakan mereka.

"Selain daripada PR yang buruk ia mungkin tidak dianggap sebagai apa-apa yang lebih teruk daripada pekerja sedikit terbunuh di tapak bangunan," kata seorang komen.

"Baghdad, Kabul, Baghram, Abha . . . semuanya berakhir di Rostov," kata seorang lagi balasan.

FlyDubai ialah syarikat penerbangan kos rendah yang dimiliki oleh United Arab Emirates. Ia telah ditubuhkan pada tahun 2008 dengan Emirates Airlines membantu ia untuk berlepas. Kedua-dua syarikat tidak mempunyai hubungan pengurusan yang lain daripada yang kedua-duanya dimiliki oleh kerajaan UAE.

Apabila diperlukan untuk mengulas mengenai dakwaan itu, FlyDubai menafikan sebarang kecuaian dan berkata ia dipatuhi semua peraturan memohon peraturan masa tugas dalam menyusun senarai nama tugas.

"Bagi FlyDubai keselamatan dan kebajikan anak kapal dan anak kapal adalah sangat penting," Syarikat penerbangan itu memberitahu RT dalam e-mel. "Jika anak kapal penerbangan merasakan bahawa, atas apa jua sebab, mereka tidak mampu untuk mendapatkan rehat yang cukup sebelum memulakan peralihan, Sistem Pengurusan Keselamatan kami (SMS), menggalakkan juruterbang untuk mengisytiharkan diri mereka tidak layak untuk terbang."

UAE pengawal selia penerbangan, Pihak Berkuasa Am Penerbangan Awam, berkata ia adalah dilarang oleh undang-undang daripada menyediakan komen mengenai dakwaan tersebut.

Jawatankuasa Penerbangan Interstate, yang didakwa siasatan kemalangan FZ981 itu, berkata ia akan menyiasat laporan RT dan komen selepas siasatan.

Flydubai FZ981 co-pilot was fatigued, but 'tremendous pressure' made him work - colleague to RT

Flydubai has long pushed the boundaries of sensible operating policy, a pilot purporting to work for the airline told RT. He says it encourages not reporting illness or fatigue, as was allegedly also the case with the crashed flight’s Alejandro Alava.

After the crash of low-cost carrier Flydubai’s flight FZ981 in Rostov-on-Don last week, a former pilot blew the whistle in an interview with RT on how the company allegedly pushes its employees to work hectic and long rosters, ignoring complaints that this puts lives in danger. That report has now been corroborated by a person who claims to be a current Flydubai pilot.

“If anything, since [the original whistleblower to RT] left, things got worse,” the pilot, who asked not to be named because he fears reprisals from his current employer, told RT. “The pressure applied to pilots by the management is tremendous.”

‘I’ll fly because we need the money’

The pilot, who says he has been with the company for years, said the payment scheme that Flydubai uses puts pressure on crew members not to call in sick. A pilot who chooses not to fly because of sickness or fatigue, which is a sensible thing to do, would lose a lot of money and may get into a really tight spot in Dubai, where the cost of living is very high, he explained.

“People fly when they are unfit because of sickness, sadly. And they also fly with the fatigue,” he said. “Everyone has a family, everyone has children and wife and mortgages they have to pay. So financial pressure is personal pressure.”

Read more: Pilots ‘worked to death’: Flydubai whistleblower says fatigue-related crash predicted (RT EXCLUSIVE) http://on.rt.com/77nm

This pressure was allegedly in place when FZ981 First Officer Alejandro Alava decided that he would be on the ill-fated flight.

“I know for a fact from a close friend of [Alava’s] wife that he didn’t want to go to work because he was tired. But he said ‘I have to go to work because we are having twins, we are going to need the money,’”the pilot said.

Pilot fatigue may be a contributing factor in a serious incident. This is especially true for flights to destinations, where ground services are not up to high standards in place in North America or Europe, the claimed pilot noticed, adding that Flydubai flies to such destinations.

“Flydubai flies to war zones, to Afghanistan. We fly to parts of Africa that have semi-controlled environments… This adds an additional risk. And when you have a tired pilot who is meant to make quick and accurate decisions, you are asking for trouble. Flydubai has been pushing the boundaries of sensible operations for a long-long time,” he said.

‘Punitive culture’

The company not only turns a blind eye when a pilot gets into the cockpit in not-too-good shape, it actually encourages non-reporting of minor incidents caused by fatigue and puts pressure on those who do, the pilot claimed.

“They say there is no punitive culture and if you report nothing would happen, but many pilots had been leaned on quite firmly, and pilots that had spoken out had been fired because of it,” he said.

“They were not fired actually,” he corrected himself. “They were leaned on to resign and told that they would get end-of-service benefits if they resigned, or otherwise they would be fired. The company doesn’t like to fire people because they don’t want to have potential for a court case or for people to speak to the press.”

The pilot said people at the company used to joke that they would need to lose a plane for anything to change.

‘It all ended in Rostov’

The atmosphere of antagonism described to RT by Flydubai sources appears evident in social media, where alleged company employees talk between themselves out of the public eye. One of the comments on a private Facebook page published after the crash in Rostov-on-Don - a screenshot of which was sent by the same pilot to RT - grimly jokes about hiring “a Strippergramm dressed as a Russian policeman” for an upcoming meeting with a chief pilot.

“I am sure the 29th March is bring a journalist to work day!” another one says, referring to the upcoming meeting.

The commentators don’t seem to expect Flydubai to take measures to correct its policies after the fatal crash in Russia, which claimed 62 lives, including seven of their colleagues.

“Apart from the bad PR it’s probably not thought of as anything worse than a few laborers killed on a building site,” one comment said.

“Baghdad, Kabul, Baghram, Abha… everything ended in Rostov,” another one replies.

Flydubai is a low-cost airline owned by the United Arab Emirates. It was established in 2008 with Emirates Airlines helping it to take off. The two companies have no management ties other than being both owned by the UAE government.

When required to comment on the allegations, Flydubai denied any negligence and said it strictly followed all rules applying to duty time regulations in compiling duty rosters.

“For Flydubai the safety and welfare of our flight crew and cabin crew is of primary importance,” the airline told RT in an email. “If a member of flight crew feels that, for whatever reason, they have not been able to get enough rest before starting a shift, our Safety Management Systems (SMS), encourages pilots to declare themselves unfit to fly.”

The UAE aviation regulator, the General Civil Aviation Authority, said it is prohibited by the law from providing comments on the allegations.

The Interstate Aviation Committee, which is charged with investigation the FZ981 crash, said it would investigate RT’s report and comment after the probe.

READ MORE: http://on.rt.com/77yf

Bendera ISIS & bom ditemui semasa serbuan rumah di Brussels - PENDAKWA . . .

JamaliahYusofYacob - Negara Islam (IS, yang sebelum ini ISIS/ISIL) bendera dan bom yang ditemui di sebuah rumah di kawasan Brussels semasa penggeledahan yang dijalankan oleh polis Belgium berkaitan dengan letupan pagi Selasa, kata pendakwa raya.

Bahan letupan ditemui di sebuah rumah di perbandaran Schaerbeek yang terkandung kuku, kata pendakwa raya Belgium. Sesetengah bahan kimia juga dijumpai semasa carian.

Serbuan sedang dijalankan di seluruh negara berikutan serangan pengganas pagi ini, pendakwa persekutuan Belgium Frederic Van Leeuw diumumkan pada sidang akhbar. Pegawai itu berkata, sambungan mungkin di antara letupan Brussels dan serangan Paris masih dalam siasatan.

BACA lagi: 'Europe adalah berperang': Pemimpin bersuara menentang pengganas maut serangan di Brussels http://on.rt.com/77so

3 suspek lelaki telah ditangkap oleh CCTV di Lapangan Terbang Brussels sebelum letupan maut, kata pendakwa. Imej yang menunjukkan 3 lelaki telah dikeluarkan.

2 daripada mereka, yang boleh dilihat memakai baju panas hitam dan apa yang kelihatan seperti sarung tangan hitam, mungkin menyembunyikan pencetus untuk bom dan "seolah-olah mempunyai serangan berani mati," menurut pendakwa, manakala lelaki yang ke-3, yang memakai bercahaya jaket-colored dan topi, "sedang giat dicari."

BACA lagi: serangan Brussels menunjukkan ISIS adalah 'menang' - bekas CIA # 2 http://on.rt.com/77ul

Polis telah mengeluarkan satu notis dikehendaki suspek ini, dengan Reuters melaporkan seorang pegawai kerajaan sebagai berkata, lelaki itu dilihat berjalan dari bangunan lapangan terbang.

Peranti banyak letupan ditemui di lapangan terbang pada waktu petang, agensi berita Belga melaporkan, memetik sumber polis.

Baca lebih lanjut: Lapangan terbang Brussels dan Metro pengeboman selepas TERKINI LIVE http://on.rt.com/77nz

Menurut sumber penguatkuasaan undang-undang lain, objek yang mencurigakan telah dineutralkan oleh juruteknik bom di lapangan terbang, yang masih dikepung.

Pihak berkuasa Belgium mengesahkan awal hari ini bahawa peranti tidak meletup yang ke-3 telah ditemui di lapangan terbang itu dengan berkata ia telah dimusnahkan oleh perkhidmatan keselamatan.

Letupan berkembar pergi dalam balai berlepas yang sibuk di lapangan terbang Brussels pada pagi Selasa pada masa sekitar 08:00 tempatan dan meragut nyawa sekurang-kurangnya 14 orang. Satu lagi serangan di ibu negara Belgium disasarkan Metro Brussels', membunuh sekurang-kurangnya 20 orang di stesen Maalbeek, yang terletak berhampiran dengan institusi EU di Brussels.

Sekitar 230 orang cedera dalam serangan, Pusat Krisis Kementerian Dalam Negeri Belgium itu telah melaporkan, sambil menekankan bahawa angka-angka tidak muktamad.

3 hari berkabung negara telah diumumkan di Belgium.

IS telah mendakwa bertanggungjawab bagi serangan Brussels, menurut agensi AMAQ, yang bergabung dengan kumpulan militan.

Baca lebih lanjut: Pembunuhan beramai-ramai di jalan-jalan Eropah: 12 tahun keganasan (GAMBAR, VIDEO) http://on.rt.com/77s0

Letupan Selasa datang hanya beberapa hari selepas Salah Abdeslam, suspek yang masih hidup perdana dari pembunuhan beramai-ramai Paris pada bulan November, ditangkap di ibu negara Belgium. Kebangsaan Perancis Belgium kelahiran berusia 26 tahun itu ditahan dalam satu serbuan pada 18 Mac dan secara rasmi dituduh membunuh pengganas. Beberapa orang yang lain telah ditangkap dalam serbuan itu dan didakwa terbabit dalam pembunuhan pengganas, menjadi anggota sebuah pertubuhan pengganas, dan membantu dan bersubahat dengan penjenayah.

BACA lagi: 'Banyak lagi serangan Paris sejenayah yang masih bebas' selepas penangkapan Abdelsam ini, Hollande berkata http://on.rt.com/77ga

Peguam itu suspek memberitahu media bahawa defendan beliau telah bekerjasama dengan pegawai-pegawai keadilan Belgium. Paris pendakwa Francois Molins berkata Abdeslam memberitahu penyiasat bahawa dia pada mulanya merancang untuk meletupkan dirinya dalam serangan Paris IS-dirancang, tetapi kemudian "berundur." Menteri Belgium hal ehwal luar, Didier Reynders, kata Salah Abdeslam telah mengaku merancang serangan pengganas baru, dan mengesahkan bahawa pasukan keselamatan telah menemui banyak senjata semasa dia ditangkap. Beliau telah dilaporkan telah diletakkan di dalam sebuah penjara keselamatan yang tinggi di Bruges.

People leave the scene of explosions at Zaventem airport near Brussels, Belgium, March 22, 2016 (Orang ramai meninggalkan tempat kejadian letupan di lapangan terbang Zaventem berhampiran Brussels, Belgium, 22 Mac 2016) © Francois Lenoir/Reuters

ISIS flag & bomb found during house raid in Brussels - prosecutors

An Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS/ISIL) flag and a bomb were found at a house in a Brussels district during a search conducted by Belgian police in connection with Tuesday morning blasts, prosecutors said.

The explosive device found at a house in the Schaerbeek municipality contained nails, Belgian prosecutors said. Some chemicals were also found during the search.

Raids are being conducted all across the country in the wake of this morning’s terror attacks, Belgian federal prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw announced at a press conference. The official added that a possible connection between the Brussels blasts and the Paris attacks is still being investigated.

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Three male suspects were captured by CCTV at Brussels Airport before the deadly blasts, the prosecutor said. An image showing the three men has been released.

Two of them, who can be seen wearing black jumpers and what looks like black gloves, possibly hid a trigger for a bomb and “seem to have committed suicide attacks,” according to the prosecutor, while the third man, who was wearing a light-colored jacket and a hat, “is actively being sought.”

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Police have released a wanted notice for this suspect, with Reuters reporting a government official as saying that the man was seen running away from the airport building.

More explosive devices were found at the airport in the evening, the Belga news agency reported, citing a police source.

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According to another law enforcement source, a suspicious object was neutralized by bomb technicians at the airport, which is still cordoned off.

Belgian authorities confirmed earlier in the day that a third unexploded device had been found at the airport, saying that it was destroyed by security services.

Twin blasts went off in a busy departure hall at the Brussels airport on Tuesday morning at around 8 am local time, claiming the lives of at least 14 people. Another attack in the Belgian capital targeted Brussels’ Metro, killing at least 20 people at the Maalbeek station, which is located close to EU institutions in Brussels.

Around 230 people were injured in the attacks, the Belgian Interior Ministry’s Crisis Center has reported, while stressing that those figures are not final.

Three days of national mourning have been announced in Belgium.

IS has claimed responsibility for the Brussels attacks, according to the AMAQ agency, which is affiliated with the militant group.

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The Tuesday blasts came just days after Salah Abdeslam, the prime surviving suspect from the Paris massacre in November, was arrested in the Belgian capital. The 26-year-old Belgian-born French national was detained during a raid on March 18 and formally charged with terrorist murder. Several other people were arrested in the raid and charged with involvement in terrorist murder, being members of a terrorist organization, and aiding and abetting criminals.

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The suspect’s lawyer told the media that his defendant was cooperating with Belgian justice officials. Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said that Abdeslam told investigators that he had initially planned to blow himself up in the IS-orchestrated Paris assault, but later “backed down.” Belgium’s minister of foreign affairs, Didier Reynders, said Salah Abdeslam had confessed to planning a new terror attack, and confirmed that security forces had found many weapons during his capture. He has reportedly been placed in a high security prison in Bruges.

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