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Briton missing since Brussels terror attack confirmed dead

David Dixon, 53, who was missing since Tuesday's bombings, has been confirmed dead by his family.

Tuesday's attacks on the Brussels airport and metro system killed 31 people and injured many more.

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Naming Brussels victims could take weeks, experts say

Forensic police officers outside the terminal at Brussels international airport. Credit: Reuterse

Forensic officials have warned that formal identification of the victims of the Brussels bombings could take weeks.

In a large military hospital complex in the north of the Belgian campital, experts are working to establish the identities of the victims through teeth, fingerprints and DNA.

"The number of non-identified people is very, very exceptional," federal police spokesman Michael Jonnois told AFP.

"It was an 'open' catastrophe, there was no list of who was in the train or at the airport terminal -- there was no passenger list like when there's a plane crash."

Only once they have been formally identified will relatives be able to take the bodies away for funerals.

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