Belgian prosecutors on Monday named three new suspects as part of a widening investigation into the March 22 bomb attacks at Brussels Zaventem airport and the Maelbeek metro station.
The announcement that three more men had been charged with “terror activities” came as authorities raised the death toll from last week’s devastating IS group suicide attacks to 35 people.
Officials from the government’s crisis centre said 31 victims died at the two attack sites and four had died in hospital. Three bombers were also killed when they detonated their explosives.
Police said they had charged the three additional suspects with participating in a terrorist group after a series of raids in recent days.
In a statement on Monday, the federal prosecutors identified the three charged as Yassine A., Mohamed B. and Aboubaker O., adding they could not give further information about them at this stage.
They also said they had released without charge a fourth man they had taken in for questioning.
Police announced on Sunday that they were holding four people following 13 new raids in and around Brussels and the northern port city of Antwerp.
The triple-suicide bombing in Brussels, considered the heart of the European Union, was Belgium’s worst-ever attack, which also left more than 300 people injured

Source: FRANCE 24 with REUTERS, March 28