24 of 31 Brussels victims identified

BRUSSELS (AP):

Brussels prosecutor Ine Van Wymersch late yesterday reported that 24 of the 31 victims in the terrorists attacks last week were now identified.

He said that 11 of them were foreigners. One was former Belgian Ambassador to the United States Andre Adam.

Of the 270 wounded, 93 are being treated at a Brussels military hospital. A doctor there said yesterday that 15 people are in a serious burns unit, five of them in intensive care.

According to the doctor, he had treated similar injuries during his service in Kandahar, southern Afghanistan, but he and his colleagues were shocked to see such injuries on women and children.

BURST EARDRUMS

He said that almost all the wounded had burst eardrums.

In the meantime, organisers postponed a solidarity march scheduled for today after the country's interior minister appealed to residents not to attend because police are too stretched with the investigation into attacks on Brussels' airport and subway.

The interior minister made the appeal yesterday citing the fact that Belgium's tiny police force is stretched.