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2 more Americans confirmed dead after Brussels attack

Sunday, 27 March 2016 8:46 AM [ Last Update: Sunday, 27 March 2016 8:45 AM ]

Stephanie Shults and her husband Justin Shults have been confirmed to have died in Brussels attacks last week.

Two more US citizens have been confirmed to have died since the terror attacks took place in Brussels, Belgium last week, bringing the total number of the Americans killed there to 4.

Justin and Stephanie Shults, an American husband and wife, died in the terrorist attacks by Daesh that claimed the lives of at least 31 people and wounded 200 others in Brussels on Tuesday.

"Today we learned from Stephanie Shults' family that she and her husband, Justin, were among those killed in the attack on the Brussels airport," Mars Inc, Stephanie Shults' employer, said on its Facebook page Saturday.

Another Twitter message by Shults' brother, Levi Sutton, also confirmed their deaths.

"We found out today that cowards took my brother's life just weeks after his 30th birthday," Sutton wrote in a message posted Saturday.

Justin and Stephanie had not been heard of after they dropped Stephanie’s mother, Carolyn Moore, at the airport when the attacks occurred. Moore has been confirmed to be safe and sound.

Justin, a native of Tennessee, moved to Brussels with his Kentucky wife in June 2014 and had lived there ever since.

In addition to the American couple, New York-based brother and sister Sascha and Alexander Pinczowski died on Tuesday just after they arrived at the Brussels Airport when the two explosions went off.

Sascha and Alexander Pinczowski were killed at the Brussels Airport when two explosions went off Tuesday.

"We can confirm that two US citizens were killed in the attack," said US State Department spokeswoman Elizabeth Trudeau on Friday.

Another US citizen, identified as Mason Wells, suffered severe burns and other injuries as he was standing at a Delta check-in counter on Tuesday when the first blast went off just feet away.

“My body was actually picked up off the ground for a moment,” the Utah teen told CNN. “My left shoe was blown off and a large part of the right side of my body got really hot and then really cold and I was covered in … a lot of blood that wasn’t mine.”

Mason Wells, an American survivor of the attacks in Belgium, seen in an image before the bombing (left), answers questions during an interview (right) in a hospital in Ghent, Belgium, on March 25.

“I actually felt the explosion on my right side, I could feel the blast,” said 19-year-old Wells, who is a Mormon missionary that escaped unscathed from the Boston Marathon bombings and Paris attack, but was unlucky in Brussels.

The attacks, coordinated from a northern suburb of Brussels called Schaarbeek, drew the world’s ire as 11 people died in a suicide bombing in the Zaventem airport and 20 others were killed in Maelbeek metro station near the US Embassy and European Union headquarters.

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