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Old Oct 16, 2023 | 3:42 pm
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Originally Posted by CJ91
Thank you for the replies and I will advise her to stop wasting her time calling based on these answers. But for those of you downplaying this as a regular everyday thing that shouldn’t be worried about I’m thinking you’ve missed the news claiming it as an Islamic State terrorist attack and that the terror level for Brussels has been raised to 4 “danger is serious and very imminent”
Similar happended on london bridge in June 2017. I doubt BA offered refunds on all their flights to the UK because the terror alert went up.

The uk alert level today is ...
  • substantial - an attack is likely

These sorts of incidents do, unfortunately, happen frequently. That is not saying they are not serious and I do understand people worry and may reconsider their plans
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