Brussels attacks: Email ordering closure of metro sent to wrong address, commission hears
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Brussels (CNN)An order to close the Brussels metro ahead of deadly terror attacks on the network failed to reach relevant authorities, in part because an email from Belgian federal police was sent to the wrong address, a parliamentary commission has heard.
The commission heard that a federal alert was issued by Belgium's Federal Crisis Center at 8:50 a.m. on March 22, the day of the attacks, including an order to close the metro and the main railway stations in Brussels.
Seventeen minutes later, at 9:07 a.m., an email from the federal police was sent ordering the closure of the metro, but it was not sent to the correct email address and did not reach the authority responsible for closing the network.
The Federal Crisis Center received notification of the explosion at the Maelbeek station at 9:11 am, at which point the metro was closed and the network evacuated.
Twenty people were killed in the terror attack at Maelbeek station in central Brussels. The station reopened on April 25.
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