{A native of southeast Texas married to a U.S. Air Force officer, 41-year-old Martinez was killed in the March 22 attack on Brussels airport. Her husband and their four children were all wounded.
Martinez' death was confirmed by U.S. Rep. Blake Farenthold, who said in a statement that he had spoken to Martinez's brother. Her husband, Lt. Col. Kato Martinez - a military assistant to the commander at NATO's Joint Force Command in the Netherlands - and the couple's four children remain hospitalized.
A short time later, two suicide bombers struck the airport, killing her.
The 40-year-old had been living in the Netherlands with her 13-year-old daughter after her extended family from Liberia had dispersed across West Africa, Europe and the United States following Liberia's civil wars.
Her brother Oscar Weah, of Providence, Rhode Island, was shaking and in tears Friday as he described how his older sister helped care for him over the years. Other relatives sang her praises.
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Elita Borbor Weah, who was heading to Rhode Island for her stepfather's funeral, had texted family members a photo of herself Tuesday at Brussels Airport.
A short time later, two suicide bombers struck the airport, killing her.
The 40-year-old had been living in the Netherlands with her 13-year-old daughter after her extended family from Liberia had dispersed across West Africa, Europe and the United States following Liberia's civil wars.
"She was always there to help for exhibitions, painting windows, preparing the new issues of the fanzine," they said. "She was full of good ideas, we could always count on her.
"We will terribly miss her images , her eyes and her smile even more."
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Days before the Brussels attacks, Raghavendran Ganesan returned to his work in Brussels from his homeland of India, where his wife had given birth to their son.
On the morning of March 22, the 31-year-old software engineer spoke by Skype to his mother in Mumbai just an hour before the attacks, mostly about about his job at IT giant Infosys.
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Civil servant Olivier Delespesse also died in the bombing at Maelbeek station, according to his employer, the Federation Wallonie-Bruxelles.
Delespesse, 45, worked in the education ministry for the federation, a government department for the French-speaking part of Belgium.
Colleagues remembered an amiable man, always ready with a smile. "Always cheerful and doing the maximum possible to help others," wrote Fadi Dalati on Facebook.
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Aline Bastin, 29, was press and communications manager for The Community of European Railway and Infrastructure Companies. She was on the subway on her way to work when the bomb went off.
In a death notice, her family said the woman from Liege in French-speaking eastern Belgium was "cut down by barbarism in her 29th spring."
After the blasts, Bastin was among those listed as missing. Her family searched desperately for information, but after a few days, her mother said they had lost hope.
Scislowska reported from Warsaw and Lawless from London. Associated Press reporters Thomas Adamson in Paris, Nomaan Merchant in Dallas, Karl Ritter in Stockholm, Christopher Bodeen in Beijing, Mike Corder in Amsterdam, Nirmala George in New Delhi, Danica Kirka and Gregory Katz in London, Raf Casert in Brussels, Nicole Winfield in Rome, Ula Ilnytzky in New York, Shawn Pogatchnik in Dublin, Matt O'Brien in Providence, Rhode Island, Frank Jordans in Berlin and Franklin Briceno in Lima, Peru, contributed to this story.
The Italian Foreign Ministry confirmed Friday that Rizzo, 48, was among the dead from the attack on Maelbeek station.
"Unfortunately, Patricia is no longer with us," a man who identified himself as Rizzo's cousin, Massimo Leonora, wrote on Facebook. His final post capped days of anxious updates recounting his search of Brussels hospitals in hopes that Rizzo might have been among the injured.
Justin Shults, originally from Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and his wife, a Lexington, Kentucky, native, graduated together from Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management. They were dropping Stephanie's mother off at the airport and were watching her walk through security when the bombs went off, a family member said.
The 24-year-old Chinese founder of Guoguoxianchi Internet Technology Co. had previously worked in overseas sales for Comen Medical Instruments and was based in Indonesia for nearly two years. Both companies were based in the southern manufacturing and technology powerhouse of Shenzhen just across the border from Hong Kong.
Gilles Laurent was a master of sound.
A sound recordist and engineer, he had worked on movies all over the world, including Mexican director Carlos Reygadas' Cannes Film Festival entry "Post Tenebras Lux" and Argentinian drama "The Tango Singer."
Laurent, who lived in the southern Belgian city of Namur, was on the subway train targeted by a bomb inside Maelbeek station.
Israeli cartoonist Michel Kichka, who worked with Laurent on the documentary "Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy," paid tribute on his blog to Laurent's kindness and "Olympian calm."The company said Coopman provided European clients with "commissioning, training and technical support." It said Coopman's "calm manner, professionalism and a dry sense of humor earned him significant respect and admiration from his clients and colleagues alike."
Coopman, who came from the Dutch-speaking Flanders region of Belgium, is survived by his wife.
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Deng Jingquan, also known as Frank, had recently left a job with an established medical devices company to strike out on his own as an Internet entrepreneur.
"In the future, if we want a different world, we need respect and tolerance. I don't want to be maudlin, but we also need love. And we owe it to all the Laurianes all around the world."
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My Atlegrim moved to Brussels to improve her French, and ended up falling in love with the city and its people.
Originally from Umea in northern Sweden, the 30-year-old illustrator and textile designer died in the subway blast.
She drew illustrations for art and children's magazines, including culture magazine Alphabeta, which said it had been proud to showcase her "wild and free" style.
Then he set off for work by subway, his usual routine for the past four years.
As television stations worldwide flashed news of the attacks, Ganesan's family tried desperately to trace him. His brother posted an appeal on his Facebook page.
Six days later, Belgian officials confirmed that Ganesan's body had been found inside the devastated subway train at Maelbeek station.
"Unfortunately, he was traveling in the same coach of the metro in which the suicide bomber blew himself up," India's external affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj, said in a tweet.
"She is never coming back," her mother, Chantal Beaufays, told La Meuse. "Our beautiful Aline is never coming back."
On Facebook her mother shared emotional songs, including Jeff Buckley's rendition of "Hallelujah," the hymn "Amazing Grace" and the 1960s French ballad "Aline." Its lyrics say, "And I cried, cried 'Aline' so she'd come back."
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James Cain learned only on March 22 that his daughter had married Alex Pinczowski. Two days later, he learned that Alex and his sister Sascha, Dutch siblings who lived in New York, had both died the same day, in the Brussels airport suicide bombing.
Tapia, 37, was killed when a bomb tore through the departures area of Brussels Airport on Tuesday, her family confirmed. A split-second decision saved her husband and 4-year-old twin daughters Maureen and Alondra from sharing her fate.
Infosys confirmed the news. "Our thoughts and prayers are with Raghavendran's family and with those who were injured and lost a loved one in these attacks," the company said in a statement.
Ganesan's parents and his brother accompanied his remains Tuesday from Brussels to the southern Indian city of Chennai, where his wife and month-old son live. The family has yet to decide on the time of the cremation, Press Trust of India said.
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Sabrina Esmael Fazal was a warm and sunny nursing student with a 100-watt smile.
Friends and family confirmed on Facebook that Fazal, a 24-year-old Belgian, was among those killed in the attacks at Maelbeek station.
Her 25-year-old boyfriend Jonathan Selemani, a soccer player, saw her off that morning as she headed to a nursing class at the Haute Ecole Galilee, her daily routine. It was the last time he saw her alive.
According to his LinkedIn profile, Deng was a graduate of the Jingdezhen Ceramic Institute in the southern Chinese city of the same name that invented porcelain and kept it a carefully guarded secret for centuries.
Pointing to a thirst for success in business, he listed former General Electric chief executive Jack Welch and his successor, Jeff Immelt, among his influences.
She was an integral part of the independent label Cypres Records, which publishes music ranging from medieval to contemporary. She wrote for Forumopera.com, sharing her enthusiasm and deep knowledge of the music scene.
Cedric Hustinx, who worked with her at Cypres, said her death leaves an unfillable void. He said she brought luminous enthusiasm and a sensitive nature to her work.
Her colleagues at Forumopera.com posted a Facebook tribute to Defize that described her as funny and irreverent. It said she loved Jeff Buckley and Radiohead as well as classical works. Her co-workers said the grief of losing her in such a vile way seems insurmountable.
Alex had traveled to the Netherlands to work on a craft-related business that he and Cameron were planning to start together, Cain said. The couple met six years ago while taking summer courses in Durham, North Carolina.
Sascha Pinczowski, 26, was a 2015 graduate of Marymount Manhattan College in New York with a degree in business.
In November, Sascha had warned that demonizing Muslims would fuel extremist recruitment. She posted on Facebook after the Nov. 13 Paris attacks: "Ignorant spreading of anti-Muslim sentiment and propaganda does nothing but benefit ISIS."Gail Minglana Martinez grew up in Corpus Christi, a city on the Gulf of Mexico southwest of Houston.
"She was a fireball," said David Hiser, who was Martinez's choir teacher in middle and high school. "Huge laugh. I just remember her personality and what an amazing kid she was."
"Gail was special to so many people," her family said in a statement. "She blessed people's lives and made this world a better place."
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Berit Viktorsson, 63, was on her way back to Sweden after visiting her daughter Katarina, who lives in Brussels. Several of her relatives had also spent the weekend in the Belgian city, celebrating a family birthday.
In the aftermath of the March 22 attacks, they posted anxious messages on social media asking for help in finding Viktorsson.
The Swedish Foreign Ministry announced the death the same day without identifying her.
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Calm and cool-headed, Belgian national Nic Coopman was a highly valued employee of a family firm in Kansas.
The 58-year-old was at Brussels Airport to catch a business flight to Zurich when he was killed in the March 22 bombings.
Coopman's death was confirmed by Sabetha, Kansas-based Wenger Manufacturing, his employer of 16 years. Coopman was a service technician in the Antwerp office of the firm, which makes extrusion equipment for the food and feed industry.
"Unfortunately, Patricia is no longer with us," a man who identified himself as Rizzo's cousin, Massimo Leonora, wrote on Facebook. His final post capped days of anxious updates recounting his search of Brussels hospitals in hopes that Rizzo might have been among the injured.
Atlegrim volunteered for an information service for young people visiting Brussels.
Her mother confirmed Tuesday that Atlegrim was among the fatalities. She had been reported missing after the subway explosion.
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Days before the Brussels attacks, Raghavendran Ganesan returned to his work in Brussels from his homeland of India, where his wife had given birth to their son.
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Calm and cool-headed, Belgian national Nic Coopman was a highly valued employee of a family firm in Kansas.
The 58-year-old was at Brussels Airport to catch a business flight to Zurich when he was killed in the March 22 bombings.
Coopman's death was confirmed by Sabetha, Kansas-based Wenger Manufacturing, his employer of 16 years. Coopman was a service technician in the Antwerp office of the firm, which makes extrusion equipment for the food and feed industry.
Her Belgian husband, Christophe Delcambe, had taken the girls out of the check-in line to play when an explosion ripped through the concourse. One daughter was struck in the arm by shrapnel and is being treated in a Belgian hospital.
Her brother, Fernando Tapia, told The Associated Press his sister had been preparing to catch a flight to New York to visit two sisters who live in the United States.
Tapia and her husband lived in the town of Tubize, south of Brussels, and her brother said she would likely be buried in Belgium.
Visart worked at the Union Nationale des Mutualites Socialistes, a health insurance body. She was killed in Maelbeek station bombing.
Her father Michel Visart, a Belgian television journalist, said his daughter had strong values "which she defended ferociously, such as fairness, justice, tolerance, equality of the sexes."
He urged people not to respond to the attacks with hatred.
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Leopold Hecht was gravely wounded in the bombing at Maelbeek subway station and died later of his injuries.
The rector of Saint-Louis University in Brussels, Pierre Jadoul, said 20-year-old Hecht was "one of the unfortunate victims of these barbaric acts."
"There are no words to describe our dismay at this news," he said in a letter to students.
Classmates lit handles and left flowers outside the university in memory of Hecht, whose Facebook profile includes pictures of a smiling young man on the ski slopes and in the great outdoors.
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A missing American couple have been identified as victims of the attack at the Brussels airport, according to their employers.
Justin Shults, 30, and wife Stephanie Shults had not been seen since Tuesday.
Her employer, Mars Inc., said in a Facebook post Saturday evening that her family had confirmed that the couple died in the bombings at the Brussels airport. Justin Shults' employer, Clarcor, had confirmed his death earlier.
Justin Shults, originally from Gatlinburg, Tennessee, and his wife, a Lexington, Kentucky, native, graduated together from Vanderbilt University's Owen Graduate School of Management. They were dropping Stephanie's mother off at the airport and were watching her walk through security when the bombs went off, a family member said.
Visart worked at the Union Nationale des Mutualites Socialistes, a health insurance body. She was killed in Maelbeek station bombing.
Her father Michel Visart, a Belgian television journalist, said his daughter had strong values "which she defended ferociously, such as fairness, justice, tolerance, equality of the sexes."
He urged people not to respond to the attacks with hatred.
"I'm not naive. I know very well that security is essential these days," he told Belgian broadcaseter RTBF. "But I think that if we build walls of exclusion, if we cultivate hatred, we're heading for disaster.He's survived by his "life's companion and soul mate," Kristin Verellen.
In the funeral note, his family said "our hearts go out to all victims of blind violence and their kin."
The family published a photo Steen recently took, a striking black-and-white image of a silvery river Yser at dusk reflecting a cloud-dappled sky. They noted that the area, which saw heavy fighting in World War I, is a memorial-place for many victims of war.
His father, Godfried Van Steen, told Belgium's Het Laatste Nieuws newspaper that Johan, the eldest of four sons, was "a bon vivant" with a passion for gardening, cooking and photography.
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Fabienne Vansteenkiste, 51, was due to finish her shift checking in baggage at Brussels' airport last Tuesday at 6. a.m. She agreed to work two extra hours to help a colleague. That decision proved fatal.
Vansteenkiste was still at the airport when two bombs exploded, killing her and 10 others.
Her husband, Eddy Van Calster, told French broadcaster TF1 Sunday that his late wife often said to him: "I'm going to die in an attack." He said that she had feared that an attack was likely at the airport during the busy morning peak time.
The rector of Saint-Louis University in Brussels, Pierre Jadoul, said 20-year-old Hecht was "one of the unfortunate victims of these barbaric acts."
"There are no words to describe our dismay at this news," he said in a letter to students.
Classmates lit handles and left flowers outside the university in memory of Hecht, whose Facebook profile includes pictures of a smiling young man on the ski slopes and in the great outdoors.
Laurent, who lived in the southern Belgian city of Namur, was on the subway train targeted by a bomb inside Maelbeek station.
Israeli cartoonist Michel Kichka, who worked with Laurent on the documentary "Cartoonists: Foot Soldiers of Democracy," paid tribute on his blog to Laurent's kindness and "Olympian calm."
The 46-year-old came from Bouillon in southern Belgium, where his parents own the Porte de France hotel. Friends were invited to pay their last respects to him at the hotel Tuesday.
Six days later, Belgian officials confirmed that Ganesan's body had been found inside the devastated subway train at Maelbeek station.
"Unfortunately, he was traveling in the same coach of the metro in which the suicide bomber blew himself up," India's external affairs minister, Sushma Swaraj, said in a tweet.
Infosys confirmed the news. "Our thoughts and prayers are with Raghavendran's family and with those who were injured and lost a loved one in these attacks," the company said in a statement.
Staff and students at Howest University in Bruges, Belgium, held a service for him over Easter weekend after his death was confirmed.
Migom, 21, had called his girlfriend, Emily Eisenman, while traveling to the airport and planned to send a follow-up message as he boarded the plane. Eisenman told NBC News he had promised to keep in touch every step of the way on his journey to Atlanta. She said his last words to her were "I love you."
Alexander and Sascha Pinczowski, Dutch nationals who lived in the U.S., were headed home to the United States when a bomb exploded at the Brussels airport Tuesday, March 22. Sascha Pinczowski, 26, was a 2015 graduate of Marymount Manhattan College in New York with a degree in business.
She spent last summer as an intern at a catering company, Shiraz Events. (Courtesy of the family via AP)
The 24-year-old Chinese founder of Guoguoxianchi Internet Technology Co. had previously worked in overseas sales for Comen Medical Instruments and was based in Indonesia for nearly two years. Both companies were based in the southern manufacturing and technology powerhouse of Shenzhen just across the border from Hong Kong.
In this photo made Tuesday, March 22, 2016, and provided by her family, Elita Borbor Weah stands in the Brussels Airport in Brussels, Belgium, shortly before bombs went off nearby. Victims of the attacks on Brussels' airport and subway included commuters heading to work and travelers setting off on long-anticipated vacations.
They came from dozens of nations to a city that's home to the European Union, NATO and other international institutions. Elita Borbor Weah, who was heading to Rhode Island for her stepfather's funeral, had texted family members a photo of herself Tuesday at Brussels Airport.
She said his last words to her were "I love you."
She described being awakened in the middle of the night by a call from Migom's family telling her about the bombings.
A Facebook post by Lode De Geyter, the managing director at Howest, said Migom was a second-year marketing student.
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Gigi Adam said her 79-year-old father, Andre Adam, died trying to protect his wife during the attack on Brussels airport.
Adam was a retired Belgian diplomat who had served as his country's ambassador to Cuba, the United States and the United Nations.
King Mohammed said that he felt "profound distress and great pain" on learning of the death of Lafquiri.
The royal message was delivered Tuesday to Lafquiri's family home by the Moroccan ambassador to Belgium, Samir Addahre.
The mother of three was a sports-mad gymnastics teacher who taught at a private Muslim school, La Vertu, in the Schaerbeek district of Brussels.
She died in the bombing at Maelbeek station.Even the Catholic Church cannot open parochial schools. Despite ideological and legal hurdles, Cuba