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Dikembe Mutombo Survives Terrorist Attack at Brussels Airport (Pics)

National Board Member U.S. Fund for UNICEF Chairman Dikembe Mutombo speaks at UNICEF Kid Power Event at Charles R. Drew Charter School on March 17, 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia.
National Board Member U.S. Fund for UNICEF Chairman Dikembe Mutombo speaks at UNICEF Kid Power Event at Charles R. Drew Charter School on March 17, 2016 in Atlanta, Georgia.

*NBA Hall of Fame  basketball player Dikembe Mutombo was at the airport in Brussels Tuesday during the series of deadly terrorist attacks in the Belgian capital, but announced that he is safe and escaped injury.

“I am safe here” and “I am fine,” the 49-year-old eight-time All-Star posted on his Facebook page along with photos. His charitable foundation also posted a message on Facebook, saying that the former NBA star “was thankfully unharmed.”

God is good. I am in Brussels Airport with this craziness. I am fine.

Posted by Dikembe Mutombo on Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Thank you everyone. I am safe here. God is good.

Posted by Dikembe Mutombo on Tuesday, March 22, 2016

Multiple explosions rocked the Zaventem international airport and the Brussels subway system, killing at least 31 people. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attacks, saying in a posting from the group’s Amaq news agency that its extremists opened fire in the airport and “several of them” detonated suicide belts.

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