(AFP) — Belgium on Sunday marked 10 years since 2016 jihadist bombings in Brussels, a trauma that still scars the country and that authorities say sharpened focus on intelligence and counterterrorism.
The March 22, 2016 attacks claimed by the Islamic State group left 32 people dead and more than 300 wounded — Belgium’s worst peacetime massacre.
Proceedings continued an hour later at the Maelbeek metro station, also targeted in the coordinated suicide blasts that ripped through the Belgian capital, before culminating at the victims’ monument.
The commemorations took place as the ongoing war in the Middle East has heightened the authorities’…
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