DHAKA: Brussels international airport will not reopen before Tuesday, authorities say, following attacks in the Belgian capital that left 31 dead.

Zaventem airport was the first target on 22 March, with two suicide bomb explosions in the departures hall, reports the BBC.

An hour later, 20 people died in the suicide bombing of a metro station.

Belgian prosecutors on Saturday announced that one arrested man, named as Faycal C, had now been charged with terrorist offences.

He had been detained outside the prosecutor’s office in Brussels on Thursday. A search of his home had found no weapons, a statement said.

So-called Islamic State (IS) has said it carried out both the Brussels attacks, and the ones in Paris, in which 130 people died.

US President Barack Obama on Saturday said that Muslims must not be stigmatized following the attacks, as this would play ‘right into the hands of terrorists’.

Brussels airport authorities said the ‘investigative work related to the judicial inquiry into the airport terminal has been completed’ but that passenger activity could not resume before Tuesday.

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