Belgium lowers Brussels attacks toll to 32

Belgian authorities today revised lower the death toll from last week's Brussels suicide attacks to 32 victims after "thorough verification", just a day after they had raised the number of dead to 35.
"After thorough verification: number of victims goes down to 32. Still 94 people in hospital," Health Minister Maggie de Block tweeted about the toll in the attacks on Brussels airport and the Maalbeek metro station.
Explaining the revision in the death toll, health ministry official Geert Gijs said that there had been confusion between two lists of people who had died at the scene and in hospital.

"It appears that three people were on both lists," he told a press conference.
All the victims had now been identified, the Belgian prosecutor's office spokeswoman Ine Van Wymersch told journalists at the government crisis centre.
Seventeen were Belgian nationals and 15 were foreign, she added.