Woman Going To Sister's N.J. Wedding Killed In Brussels Terror Attack, Family Says

A woman who was on her way to New Jersey with her family from Brussels for her sister's wedding was among the 11 people killed in the blast at the airport, according to her family.

Adelma Tapia Ruiz was checking in for her flight to the New York City area with her Passaic County area family on Tuesday morning when the blasts occurred, according to NBC 4 New York.

At that moment, her twin daughters ran off to play, and her husband followed. Then the blasts ripped through the airport, according to the report.

Tapia Ruiz was killed, and one of her daughters was hit by shrapnel. Ruiz's husband was also hurt, according to the report.

"She was supposed to be the chef and cook for her sister [at the shower], to do all that stuff. It's horrible," family friend Martha Sisco at a memorial mass inside a small Passaic church Wednesday told NBC.

Tapia Ruiz hadn't seen her family in New Jersey in several years. Now they've turned to funeral arrangements, NBCPhiladelphia reported.

Family members have not disclosed funeral plans and it's not clear if the wedding will go on as planned, according to the report.

"The family right now, they are in breakdown," Sisco told NBC. "The mother, they had to take her to the hospital yesterday."

Tapia Ruiz was born in Peru and dreamed of opening a restaurant, recently living in Belgium for nine years while cooking the recipes of her homeland, according to The Record.

The daughters were the "love of Tapia's life," Tapia told The Associated Press. But fter getting married, the couple had difficulty getting pregnant, so they traveled several times to the Amazonian jungle in Peru to seek out medicinal plants to help start a family, according to the report.

Tapia Ruiz was politically active andparticipated in Brussels in a march to commemorate International Women's Day, which drew attention to the plight of thousands of women refugees arriving in Europe from Syria and other war-torn nations, according to the report.

Photo courtesy of NBC 4 New York.