Failed Brussels attack could have caused widespread casualties – authorities

Morroccan national with possible Isis sympathies was shot dead after trying to explode suitcase bomb in Central station A man who tried to inflict a mass casualty attack on Brussels’ busy Central station was a Moroccan national with possible Islamic State sympathies from the Molenbeek area of the Belgian capital, prosecutors have said.Belgium’s security services are frantically seeking to piece together the last movements of the man, who was shot dead by a soldier on Tuesday evening