Brussels attacker identified as Moroccan
Belgium will keep its terror alert level at three on a scale of four, prime minister says after chairing a meeting with his national security council
Brussels
BELGIUM said on Wednesday that a Moroccan man carried out a foiled terrorist attack with a nail bomb at a busy Brussels train station, the latest in a wave of attacks to hit Europe.
The 36-year-old man, identified only as OZ, shouted "Allahu Akbar" and tried to detonate a suitcase among a group of passengers at Brussels Central station on Tuesday before a soldier shot him dead.
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