Belgium Remembers Brussels Bombings, Ten Years On

0:00On March 22nd, Belgium marked the 10th anniversary of the March 22nd, 2016 jihadist bombings in Brussels. Those coordinated suicide attacks at Zaventom Airport and the male-beak metro station killed 32 people and injured more than 300 in. The country's worst peacetime attack, the bombings came from the same sale behind the Paris attacks five months earlier. They happened just days after Belgian police arrested the last surviving Paris attacker, prompting the jihadists to strike quickly. King Philippe, Queen Matilde and Prime Minister Bart De Weaver joined survivors and families at ceremony starting at 8 a.m. at the airport, then. Moving to the metro and a victim's memorial. Survivors shared raw stories of survival amid the chaos and lasting scars. In response, Belgium boosted its security. State security staff grew from 600 to 950 agents. They built a shared database on extremists, now tracking over 500 priority names, mostly for Islamist threats.

1:01Officials say they fixed past intelligence gaps, yet challenges linger. The threat level sits at serious level 3 out of 4 after recent attacks like the killing of two Swedish fans in Brussels last year. Some victims still fight for full recognition of injuries and fair compensation, feeling left behind a decade later.