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| PARIS — Three men have been charged in Belgium with participation in the activities of a terrorist group, the federal prosecutor’s office announced on Monday, as the death toll for the attacks in Brussels last week rose to 35. | PARIS — Three men have been charged in Belgium with participation in the activities of a terrorist group, the federal prosecutor’s office announced on Monday, as the death toll for the attacks in Brussels last week rose to 35. |
| The men — identified only as Yassine A., Mohamed B. and Aboubaker O. — were arrested on Sunday in police raids in and around Brussels. It was not clear whether they were connected to the attacks last Tuesday at Brussels Airport and at a subway station in the city. | |
| The Belgian police conducted 13 house searches on Sunday — four in Mechelen, a town about 20 miles north of Brussels; one in Duffel, about 25 miles north of the capital; and another eight in Brussels itself — and arrested nine people, of whom six have been released after questioning. | |
| The Belgian federal prosecutor’s office did not specify where the men charged on Monday had been arrested. | |
| One man, identified as Fayçal C. by the authorities and as Fayçal Cheffou by the Belgian news media, was charged on Saturday with participating in a terrorist group, in terrorist murders and in attempted terrorist murders, in connection with the Brussels attacks. | One man, identified as Fayçal C. by the authorities and as Fayçal Cheffou by the Belgian news media, was charged on Saturday with participating in a terrorist group, in terrorist murders and in attempted terrorist murders, in connection with the Brussels attacks. |
| The authorities are still trying to determine whether Mr. Cheffou was the man, wearing a dark hat and white coat, who was recorded in a surveillance image at the airport with the two suicide bombers. | |
| On Monday, the Belgian police again asked for help identifying that man, and they released CCTV footage of the three airport suspects for the first time. The soundless footage, which appears to be slowed down, shows the three men pushing luggage carts with large black bags. The video released by the police focuses on the man in the white coat and dark hat and blurs out the rest. The man has a short black beard and also appears to be wearing glasses. | |
| The authorities around Europe have intensified counterterrorism operations in the wake of the attacks, with arrests in at least five countries, some of them connected to the attacks in Brussels and others to the Paris attacks of Nov. 13. | The authorities around Europe have intensified counterterrorism operations in the wake of the attacks, with arrests in at least five countries, some of them connected to the attacks in Brussels and others to the Paris attacks of Nov. 13. |
| The Belgian health minister, Maggie De Block, said on Monday that the death toll from the attacks last week had reached 35, after the death of four more victims while hospitalized. That toll did not include the two suicide bombers at Brussels Airport, near the town of Zaventem, nor the suicide bomber at the Maelbeek subway station. | The Belgian health minister, Maggie De Block, said on Monday that the death toll from the attacks last week had reached 35, after the death of four more victims while hospitalized. That toll did not include the two suicide bombers at Brussels Airport, near the town of Zaventem, nor the suicide bomber at the Maelbeek subway station. |