警方追捕布鲁塞尔恐袭嫌疑人 Isis strikes at heart of Europe

A manhunt was under way last night for a suspected Isis bomber after co-ordinated attacks in Brussels killed at least 30 people, injured hundreds of others and brought a terrorist atrocity to a European capital for the second time in four months.

警方昨夜开始追捕一名“伊拉克和黎凡特伊斯兰国”(ISIS)的炸弹袭击嫌疑人，此前布鲁塞尔发生的连环爆炸造成至少30人遇难、数百人受伤，这是欧洲国家首都在4个月里第二次遭遇恐怖主义暴行。

Two explosions ripped through the check-in area at Brussels’ Zaventem airport, north-east of the EU’s capital and a few kilometres from Nato’s headquarters, shortly before 8am. A third device at the airport failed to detonate and was later dismantled by police.

昨天上午临近8点时，位于欧盟首府布鲁塞尔东北方向、距北约(Nato)总部仅数公里的扎芬特姆机场(Zaventem)办理登机手续的区域发生了两起爆炸。机场内的第3个炸弹未能引爆，后来被警方拆除。

Then a little more than an hour after the initial attacks, another blast ripped through a metro carriage at Maalbeek station in the heart of the district dominated by EU offices, killing at least 20 people. Belgian media reported 14 deaths at the airport, citing staff at hospitals.

最初这波袭击发生一小时后，位于欧盟办公大楼聚集的市中心Maalbeek地铁站的一个地铁车厢内再次发生爆炸，造成至少20人遇难。比利时媒体援引医院工作人员的话称，机场爆炸造成14人遇难。

At least two of the detonations were the work of suicide bombers, Belgian authorities said yesterday evening. Frédéric Van Leeuw, the country’s chief federal prosecutor, said two suspects photographed by CCTV at Zaventem airport had very probably killed themselves as suicide bombers.

比利时政府昨晚表示，至少有两次爆炸是自杀炸弹袭击者所为。联邦检察官弗雷德里克•范莱乌(Frédéric Van Leeuw)称，扎芬特姆机场的闭路电视拍下的两名自杀式袭击嫌疑人很有可能已经在爆炸中自杀。

However, a third man caught on camera alongside them, dressed in a white jacket and a hat, was the subject of an active manhunt.

然而，摄像头拍摄到的与二人在一起的身着白色夹克、头戴一顶帽子的第三个人成为追捕目标。

Just days after police raids in the city had produced an apparent breakthrough in efforts to curb Belgium’s jihadi networks, Isis’ attacks, intelligence officials said, revealed an even deeper layer of operational capability for the terrorists in Europe than previously assessed.

情报官员称，警方在布鲁塞尔发起的突袭在遏制比利时圣战分子网络方面取得表面突破仅几天后，ISIS就能发动袭击，表明欧洲境内恐怖分子具有比此前的评估更深层次的行动能力。

“This kind of attack couldn’t really be organised in any less than four days and it would usually be weeks in the planning,” said Matthew Henman, manager of IHS Jane’s Terrorism and Insurgency Centre. “It’s certainly possible it was accelerated by the arrest of Abdeslam, but there must already have been an attack plot and capability that was close to fruition.”

“此类袭击不可能真的在不到4天内组织实施，通常需要策划数周，”简氏防务(IHS Jane’s)恐怖主义和叛乱中心主管马修•亨曼(Matthew Henman)称，“当然可能因阿卜杜勒-萨拉姆(Abdeslam)落网而加速，但是之前袭击的策划和实施能力肯定已经接近成熟。”

Isis made a series of claims of responsibility for the attacks in a phased manner that experts saw as evidence of co-ordination between the perpetrators and Isis’s central operations in Syria.

ISIS以分阶段的方式多次声称对这一连环袭击负责，专家们认为，这证明行凶者与叙利亚境内的ISIS行动中枢之间密切配合。

Belgium has been on alert since many of the perpetrators of last year’s attacks in Paris were linked to the poor Brussels neighbourhood of Molenbeek.

由于去年巴黎恐袭案多名元凶与布鲁塞尔贫穷的莫伦贝克区有关联，比利时已经处于警戒状态。

Charles Michel, Belgium’s prime minister, said terrorists had carried out a “blind, violent and cowardly” act. Additional security measures were being rolled out across the country, he added, including “reinforced border checks and specific restrictive measures for public transport”. Belgium has been put at the highest level of terror alert.

比利时首相夏尔•米歇尔(Charles Michel)称，恐怖分子实施了“不分青红皂白、暴力以及怯弱”的行动。他补充称，整个比利时已经采取了额外安保措施，其中包括“加强边境检查以及对公共交通采取特定的限制措施”。比利时已进入恐怖威胁预警的最高级别。

“We are confronted by a test, a difficult test and we have to confront this test united,” Mr Michel said. “It is a black moment for our country.”

“我们面对着一场考验，一场艰难的考验，我们必须团结面对这场考验，”米歇尔称，“这是我国的一个黑暗时刻。”