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eports that three Indonesians were critically wounded on Tuesday in two explosions in Brussels are emerging as Muslim leaders condemned all the attacks and acts of terrorism.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Arrmanatha Nasir said officials at the Indonesian Embassy in Brussels had received word that three Indonesian citizens were being treated in hospital in the aftermath of a bomb that went off at Brussels'€™ Zaventem airport on Tuesday.

Another explosion took place downtown at the Malebeek subway station. The two bombings killed more than 30 people.

Arrmanatha said that an Indonesian mother and her two children were undergoing emergency treatment at Leuven University Hospital. The condition of one of her children had stabilized after the child received treatment for the injuries, he said.

'€œWe are currently crosschecking data from the Indonesian Embassy and [the local] immigration office to confirm the identity of the mother and her children, so as to determine whether they are indeed Indonesian citizens,'€ he said on Wednesday.

The embassy approached the woman'€™s Belgian husband, who was not at the airport when the bomb exploded, to provide assistance.

Meanwhile, the Indonesian Ulema Council (MUI), whose members consist of prominent Islamic clerics from major Islamic organizations in the country, condemned the blasts, the responsibility for which was claimed by the Islamic State (IS) movement.

MUI deputy secretary-general Tengku Zulkarnain said that Indonesian Muslim clerics had expressed deep condolences over the loss of lives caused by the two bombings, calling for all Muslims around the world to pray for the family members of the victims in order to stay strong during the gloomy days.

'€œAny act of terrorism wherever and whenever it is and whoever does it and whatever the religion of the attacker must be opposed because Islam never justifies violent acts,'€ Zulkarnain said.

He said that terrorist groups wrongly used the word jihad to justify their actions in bombing public spaces, adding that the word must not be used in such a context.

'€œJihad is a state of affairs where people fight back when being attacked in a war. Attacking people in public spaces like on a bus or on the metro or wherever it is, is not jihad but jahat [evil],'€ Zulkarnain said, using an Indonesian word to express himself.

The MUI called on Western media outlets not to relate the attacks to Islam by publishing presumptive stories telling readers that the blasts took place about four days after the arrest of a prime suspect in November'€™s Paris attacks, Salah Abdeslam, who is reportedly a Muslim.

Zulkarnain further said that the MUI strongly encouraged Muslims around the world to teach their children and family members to love each other in order to prevent them from doing the same actions in the future.

Separately, Muhammadiyah secretary-general Abdul Mukti said that the country'€™s second-largest Islamic organization also condemned the attacks in Brussels, whatever the motives were.

'€œAny act that results in the loss of people'€™s lives is inhumane. Authorities in Brussels should investigate the bombings thoroughly and bring the bombers to justice,'€ Mukti said.

Even if the perpetrators turned out to be Muslims, it did not mean that they represented Islam when doing the killing, and their acts clearly damaged the image of Islam, the secretary-general added.

'€œIslam teaches its followers to spread peace to the world.'€