Islamic State claims responsibility for Brussels attacks as death toll rises

Islamic State militants were responsible for Tuesday’s attacks on Brussels International Airport, the extremist group’s Amaq Agency has said.
Amaq, one of the group’s multiple media outlets, said Islamic State fighters opened fire inside the Belgian capital’s Zaventen airport before detonating suicide bomb, while one suicide attacker targeted the Maelbeek metro station.
The brief report, published first on Amaq’s English-language website, described Belgium as “a country participating in the international coalition against the Islamic State”.
The death toll from the attacks rose to 34 on Tuesday.
It had been put at 22 initially.
dpa/NAN.