Residents shocked after victims treated in same hospital as IS suspect

Many victims of the Maalbeek bomb were rushed to the city’s St-Pierre hospital – where a key IS suspect Salah Abdeslam was treated at the weekend after a dramatic police raid. 

"It’s a horrible thought," Luc Martin, a 52-year-old father of three who had just visited a family member inside the St-Pierre hospital, told Middle East Eye. 

"Numerous ambulances have been pulling up outside the emergency ward since first thing this morning. They are doing everything they can to save people."

"We were talking about Abdeslam last night – it seems incredible that he was being looked after by the same people," he added.