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2 days ago · How the bombs changed Brussels, and how the city is still coming to terms with them. It was a moment that would live in infamy in Belgian history: on March 22, 2016, two bomb blasts in Brussels left 32 dead, shattering the city’s calm and traumatising the country.
- How Belgium moved on from the bombings - The Brussels Times
The principal effect of the Brussels bombings on March 22,...
- How Belgium moved on from the bombings - The Brussels Times
5 days ago · The principal effect of the Brussels bombings on March 22, 2016, was to kill 32 innocent people and injure hundreds more. A secondary effect, harder to quantify, was to remove some illusions about the cohesiveness of Belgian society. The bombings made many Belgians face up to questions about the nature of their society.
Jun 14, 2024 · The Evere airfield and several neighbours in the capital were bombed. Some 41 people were killed and more than 80 injured that day. After eight months of waiting, the war was now very real. It came from the sky, a phenomenon that Brussels had not previously experienced.
2 days ago · The Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, Belgium was targeted when a gunman identified as Mehdi Nemmouche opened fire at the museum. Three people died at the scene while a fourth died on 6 June due to injuries.
Jun 14, 2024 · Late on Thursday afternoon, a fire broke out in a warehouse at Brussels Cargo Airport Brugargo, in the Flemish Brabant municipality of Machelen. It took firefighters all night to extinguish the blaze. The warehouse was completely destroyed.
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Jun 28, 2024 · Brussels - Capital, EU, History: The German occupation of Belgium during World War I lasted from August 1914 to November 1918. Numerous social relief movements were instituted; among them, the National Committee for Relief and Food had its headquarters in Brussels and, with U.S. aid, organized the feeding of the Belgian population.
Jun 24, 2024 · Paris attacks of 2015, coordinated terrorist attacks that took place in Paris on the evening of November 13, 2015. At least 130 people were killed and more than 350 were injured by gunmen and suicide bombers who targeted the Stade de France and popular night spots in Paris’s 10th and 11th arrondissements.
