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The two-year anniversary of the attacks in Maelbeek

 

Thursday is the two-year anniversary of the terrorist attacks in Brussels.On the morning of 22 March 2016, two suicide bombers detonated explosives in the Brussels Airport departure hall, while one suicide bomber blew himself up in a Maalbeek metro station in the European Quarter.

Thirty-two victims were killed, half of them at Maelbeek. The station held a minute of silence today at 9.11, the moment of the explosion, in the presence of prime minister Charles Michel.

Brussels mascot Manneken Pis, meanwhile, was dressed as a firefighter for the day, and a fire engine and ambulance will greet him with a minute of noise at 11.00.

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