2016 Brussels bombings Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! == Victims == {| class="wikitable sortable floatright" style="font-size:88%; margin:0 0 1.5em 1.5em; width:30%" |+ Deaths by citizenship<ref name=BBC35880119/><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2022/12/05/the-faces-of-victims-of-the-brussels-terror-attacks/ |title=The faces of victims of the Brussels terror attacks |date=5 December 2022 |access-date=23 March 2023 |work=VRT |archive-date=7 April 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230407164656/https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2022/12/05/the-faces-of-victims-of-the-brussels-terror-attacks/ |url-status=live }}</ref> |- ! style="text-align:left;" | Citizenship ! style="text-align:left;" | Deaths |- | style="text-align:left;" | {{Flagu|Belgium}} | 14 |- | style="text-align:left;" | {{Flagu|United States}} | 4 |- | style="text-align:left;" | {{Flagu|Netherlands}} | 3 |- | style="text-align:left;" | {{Flagu|Sweden}} | 2 |- | style="text-align:left;" | {{Flagu|Democratic Republic of Congo}}{{efn|A Congolese-Belgian man}} | 1 |- | style="text-align:left;" | {{Flagu|China}} | 1 |- | style="text-align:left;" | {{Flagu|India}} | 1 |- | style="text-align:left;" | {{Flagu|Italy}}{{efn|An Italian-Belgian woman}} | 1 |- | style="text-align:left;" | {{Flagu|Morocco}}{{efn|A Moroccan-Belgian woman}} | 1 |- | style="text-align:left;" | {{Flagu|Germany}} | 1 |- | style="text-align:left;" | {{Flagu|Peru}} | 1 |- | style="text-align:left;" | {{Flagu|Poland}} | 1 |- | style="text-align:left;" | {{Flagu|United Kingdom}} | 1 |- class="sortbottom" | '''Total''' | 32 |- class="sortbottom" |} Thirty-two people, excluding the three suicide bombers, were killed in the attacks and over 300 were injured. Sixteen died in the airport attack and sixteen in the metro attack.<ref name="BBC35869985"/> The bombings were the deadliest attack on Belgium since [[World War II]].<ref name=Guardian220317/> Seventeen of the victims were Belgian (including three with dual nationality) and the rest were foreign nationals.<ref name="BBC35869985"/> Foreign victims came from different countries including the US, the Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, the United Kingdom, Poland, China, India and Peru. They ranged in age from 20 years to 79 years.<ref name=BBC35880119>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35880119|title=Victims of the Brussels attacks|date=15 April 2016|work=BBC News|access-date=12 March 2023|archive-date=12 March 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230312131723/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35880119|url-status=live}}</ref> Among the fatalities at the airport was retired diplomat [[André Adam (politician)|André Adam]], who had served as Belgian Permanent Representative to the [[United Nations]] and as Ambassador to the United States.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Health/belgian-ambassador-us-dead-terror-attacks/story?id=37934278 |title=Former Belgian Ambassador to US Among Dead in Terror Attacks |work=[[ABC News]] |date=25 March 2016 |first=Gillian |last=Mohney |access-date=28 May 2019 |publisher=[[Abc.go.com]] |archive-date=4 April 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190404022043/https://abcnews.go.com/Health/belgian-ambassador-us-dead-terror-attacks/story?id=37934278 |url-status=live }}</ref> On 25 July 2023, a Brussels court ruled that three people who had died in the years following the attacks should be recognised as victims and the official number of victims was revised from 32 to 35. One woman died by euthanasia due to psychological suffering, one man died by suicide and one man died of cancer, his treatment having been interrupted due to the injuries he sustained in the metro bombing.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.rtbf.be/article/proces-des-attentats-de-bruxelles-le-bilan-officiel-du-nombre-de-victimes-revu-a-la-hausse-11232684|title=Procès des attentats de Bruxelles : le bilan officiel du nombre de victimes revu à la hausse|date=25 July 2023|work=RTBF}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page