FBI, NYPD sending team to probe Brussels attacks

The FBI and the New York Police Department (NYPD) are sending detectives to investigate the Brussels attacks given that US citizens are among the casualties, a senior police officer announced on Tuesday.

"Because there are Americans among the casualties and US persons in the attack in Belgium, there will be an FBI investigation coming out of the New York City Joint Terrorism Task Force," Miller told reporters.

"We expect agents and New York City detectives, or Task Force officers, to be gearing up to leave for that investigation overseas as early as tonight or tomorrow."

NYPD detectives and FBI agents from the task force have been involved in numerous international terrorism investigations, including the US embassy bombings in East Africa in 1998 and the attack on the USS Cole in 2000.