All of the Marine security guards at the U.S. Embassy in Brussels have been accounted for following Tuesday's terrorist attacks that have reportedly killed more than 30 people.
The State Department has not asked for more Marines to reinforce the embassy in Brussels, said Marine Corps spokesman Maj. Christian Devine.
A Marine Security Augmentation Unit deployed to the U.S. Embassy in Paris following terrorist attacks there in November. Based in Quantico, Virginia, the Marines are trained embassy guards who can reinforce U.S. diplomatic missions across the world.
An Air Force officer and several of his family members were injured in the Brussels attacks Tuesday. The name of the officer has not been released due to privacy concerns, the Air Force said in a statement.
The State Department is still trying to locate some diplomatic officials who are unaccounted for after the attacks, department spokesman Mark Toner told reporters Wednesday.
"We still have not accounted for every official U.S. government employee or their members — or family members on the ground in Belgium — or in Brussels, rather," Toner said at the State Department's daily news conference. "Partly, that reflects the size of the mission or three missions. There's a bilateral mission, there's a mission to the EU, as well as a mission to NATO.
"As I said, that partly reflects the fact that there's a number of injured in the hospital — in hospitals around the city, and we're still trying to gain access and trying to determine the identity of those and the nationality, obviously, of those individuals."
