Survivor of Attack on Jewish Museum in Brussels Dies

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PARIS — The sole surviving victim of the shooting last month at the Jewish Museum in Brussels died in a hospital on Friday, said Eric Van der Sypt, the spokesman for Belgium’s federal prosecutor’s office, raising the final death toll in the attack to four.

The victim, identified in news accounts as Alexandre Strens, 24, who was working as a receptionist at the museum at the time of the attack, had until Friday been reported to be in critical condition or in a state of brain death.

Late last month, the authorities in southern France arrested a suspect in the killings, Mehdi Nemmouche, a 29-year-old French-Algerian man who is believed to have traveled to Syria to fight alongside Islamist militants there. Belgian authorities have sought Mr. Nemmouche’s extradition for trial, which Mr. Nemmouche has contested.