A 20-year-old Belgian student has been named as a victim of the Brussels massacre after succumbing to his injuries.

Leopold Hecht, who studied law at the Université Saint-Louis in Belgian capital, was at the metro station when a bomb was detonated.

Yesterday, Leopold's desperate brother and a friend took to social media to appeal for information about his whereabouts. 

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Victim: Leopold Hecht, who studied law at the Université of Saint-Louis in Belgian capital, died from his injuries

Victim: Leopold Hecht, who studied law at the Université of Saint-Louis in Belgian capital, died from his injuries

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His brother tweeted: '#Bruxelles If you've seen my brother Leopold Hecht, let me know.'

He later confirmed Leopold had been found, but did not elaborate on his condition.

Today his university announced he had died in the terror attacks, writing: 'I am very sad to inform you of the death of Leopold Hecht... There are no words to describe our dismay at the news. All our thoughts are with his family and relatives.'    

Fellow student Thibault Claes-Ingeveld replied to the post, writign: 'How sad, it chills my blood. How is this possible in our time to be killed on his way to the university/work... Condolences...'

Killed: Leopold Hecht, a 20-year-old Belgian student, has been named as a victim of the Brussels massacre

Killed: Leopold Hecht, a 20-year-old Belgian student, has been named as a victim of the Brussels massacre

Explosion: The bomb blasts at Zaventem Airport and Maelbeek Metro Station (pictured) killed 34 people

Explosion: The bomb blasts at Zaventem Airport and Maelbeek Metro Station (pictured) killed 34 people

Serge Di Michele added: 'No words... It's unfair... My condolences to his family and loved ones.'

His mother confirmed to MailOnline that her son had died, but did not wish to comment further.

Leopold is the second victim of the Brussels terror attacks to be named. The massacre at Zaventem Airport and Maelbeek Metro Station killed 34 people.

Mother-of-two Adelma Tapia Ruiz, 36, was the first - she was on the way to visit relatives in New York with her daughters when she died in the blasts at Zaventem airport.

Family: Adelma Tapia Ruiz, 36, died in the terrorist attack in Brussels on Tuesday, while her three-year-old twins Maureen and Alondra, and her Belgian husband Christopher Delcambe, survived

Family: Adelma Tapia Ruiz, 36, died in the terrorist attack in Brussels on Tuesday, while her three-year-old twins Maureen and Alondra, and her Belgian husband Christopher Delcambe, survived

Ms Tapia Ruiz, who had lived in Belgium for nine years, was on her the way to visit relatives in New York with her twin daughters when she died in the bombing at Brussels airport

Ms Tapia Ruiz, who had lived in Belgium for nine years, was on her the way to visit relatives in New York with her twin daughters when she died in the bombing at Brussels airport

Ms Tapia's three-year-old twins Maureen and Alondra, and her Belgian husband Christopher Delcambe, survived the attack, as the young girls had run off to play, followed by their father, just moments before the bombs went off. 

One of the twins, Maureen, suffered shrapnel wounds in one arm, while Mr Delcambe, who was seeing off his wife and daughters at the check-in desk, was also injured.

Ms Tapia's brother, Fernando Tapia Coral, said she was travelling alone with the twins to meet their mother and sister in New York.

A second Belgian man, Olivier Delespesse has also been named on today.

Mr Delespesse worked for the Federation Wallonia-Brussels - a government organisation representing French speakers in Wallonia and the Brussels region.

Belgian Olivier Delespesse was reportedly on his way to work at a government organisation for Belgian French-speakers, when he died in the blast on the metro train

Belgian Olivier Delespesse was reportedly on his way to work at a government organisation for Belgian French-speakers, when he died in the blast on the metro train

Mr Delespesse reportedly died in the second attack on Maelbeek Metro Station, and his death was confirmed in a Facebook post by his place of work.

The Italian Foreign Ministry has reported one dead Italian national, but has not yet released the identity of the victim. 

A Moroccan woman has also reportedly been confirmed among the victims of the blast at Maelbeek, Moroccan diplomatic sources told Belgian media on Wednesday. 

A REIGN OF TERROR: HOW PARIS ATTACKER SALAH ABDESLAM AVOIDED CAPTURE AND MINGLED WITH BOMBERS FOR MORE THAN FOUR MONTHS

Early September: Salah Abdeslam and Najim Laachraoui, now known as one of the two Brussels airport suicide bombers, travel to Budapest to pick up two men posing as migrants. The group then leaves the country together.

November 11: Abdeslam and a man later identified as Mohamed Abrini, 30, are captured on camera together at a petrol station in Ressons, France. They are driving the Renault Clio used two days later in the Paris attacks.

November 13: Some 130 people are massacred in a series of co-ordinated bomb and gun attacks across Paris, directly involving up to eight jihadis and for which Abdeslam helped organise logistics.

November 13: Abdeslam, travelling with two other men (who were later arrested) is stopped at a police checkpoint near the border with Belgium just hours after the attacks in Paris. They are all allowed to go free.

November 15: Reports emerge Abdelslam has been located at a house in Molenbeek - but police have to wait until daylight to raid it due to strict night-time laws. He has vanished by the time they act.

November 18: The suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, is killed in a shootout with police in St Denis, northern France. He is thought to have spent time waging jihad in Syria and had organised multiple attacks in Europe.

November 23: A swathe of night time raids across Molenbeek sees dozens of people arrested but police fail to find Abdeslam.

January 8: Authorities announce they have found Abdeslam's fingerprints in a flat in Schaerbeek, Brussels that was raided in December.

March 15: Brussels bombers Khalid and Brahim El Bakraoui flee a flat in Forest, Brussels, following a raid by police at the safehouse. Abdeslam's fingerprints are found in the building.

March 18: Abdeslam is arrested in a raid in Molenbeek after four months spent on the run. Authorities say he was supposed to be a fourth suicide bomber in Paris but 'backed out' at the last minute.

March 22: The Bakraoui brothers carry out suicide bomb attacks at Brussels airport and the city's metro station respectively, killing 34 people. Laachraoui was the second airport suicide bomber.

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