Facebook turns on Safety Check for Brussels attacks
Facebook has turned on its Safety Check feature for Brussels, where a series of explosions at the Brussels airport and a metro station left at least 13 dead and many more injured.
The feature lets you check on your Facebook friends in or near Brussels, the capital of Belgium, and see whether they're safe, or mark them as safe if you know where they are and how they're doing.
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Originally used for natural disasters, the Safety Check site was turned on during the terrorist attacks in Paris in Novemver 2015, and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg promised to use the feature in "more human disasters."
Since then, Safety Check was used during terrorist attacks in Nigeria and Turkey.
Local media reported at least 13 people are dead and 35 were wounded following the blast at the Brussels Zaventem airport after 8 a.m. local time Tuesday. There is currently no confirmed information about the victims following the explosion at a Brussels metro station, which occurred about an hour later.
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