Brussels attacks: Brit feared dead as first victim of terror strike named

A BRITISH man is among the missing after the Brussels terror attacks – as the first confirmed victim is named.

MISSING: David Dixon has been reported missing

Fears are growing for David Dixon, originally from Hartlepool, after he was reported missing when he failed to show up to work this morning.

He is thought to have been on the Metro system when a bomb went off – killing 20.

Mr Dixon – an IT worker – has failed to contact his partner Charlotte Louis Sutcliffe since he left for work.

Adelma Tapia Ruiz – a Peruvian mother of three-year-old twins – has been the first person identified as a victim of the earlier attack at the airport – which killed 14.

VICTIM: Adelma Tapia Ruiz has been named as the first victim of the Brussels attacks

BOMBING: Mr Dixon has failed to contact his partner

Mr Dixon works in the Belgian capital that was bombed by depraved Islamic State.

The twisted terror group have so far left 34 people dead and around 200 injured after blasting Brussels Airport and metro station yesterday rush hour.

BRUSSELS: Evil terrorists have killed 34 so far

Mr Dixon lives and works in Belgium and concerns were first raised when he did not arrive at his office today.

Meanwhile, there are said to be nine Americans among the victims.

Three Mormon missionaries from Utah and a US Air Force member and his family are thought to be among those hurt in the deadly bomb attacks in Brussels, government and church officials said.

Richard Norby, 66, Joseph Empey, 20, and Mason Wells, 19, all from Utah are said to have been caught up in the atrocities.

AMERICANS: Sascha (pictured) and Alexander Pinczowski are also missing

Elsewhere, American siblings Sascha and Alexander Pinczowski, from New York, were at Brussels Airport during the time of the two explosions.

Families of those missing have turned to social media in a desperate attempt to track down their loved ones.

Weapons have been found at the blast site at Zaventem airport, according to a Belgian news agency. The information has not yet been confirmed by an official source.

Three explosive devices have been recovered at the airport, including a suicide belt which failed to detonate, according to Belgian media.