Explosions shook the Brussels Airport and the subway system Tuesday, killing at least 13 people and injuring many others a few days after the prime suspect in the November bombings in Paris has been arrested in the city, police said.
Witnesses described to the ceiling caving in and blood everywhere after two explosions in the boarding lounge at Brussels Airport. All flights have been canceled arriving planes and trains were diverted and terror alert level was highly raised to Belgium as much. Authorities said people in Brussels to stay where they were bringing the city to a standstill. Security also has been beefed up in all Paris airports.
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European safety authorities have been prepared for a major attack for weeks and warned that the Islamic State was preparing actively. The arrest of Salah Abdeslam in Brussels last week heightened those fears, as investigators said that many people involved in the attacks on November 13 in Paris, which killed 130 people were still on the loose. After Abdeslam was arrested, Belgian Didier Reynders Chancellor said that authorities knew that he had created a new network around it and had access to several weapons, although there was no immediate indication that he or the Islamic State group had any involvement in Tuesday's attacks.
The Belgian media reported 12 people were killed at the airport. It wasn't clear if any died in the explosion. Zach Mouzoun, who arrived on a flight from Geneva about of 10 minutes before the first explosion, told BFM television that the second explosion, louder dropped ceilings and broken pipes, water mixing with the blood of victims.
It was atrocious. The ceilings have collapsed, according to him, there was blood everywhere, people injured, bags of all places.
We were walking in the rubble. It was a scene of war, he said.
Near the entrance of the Maelbeek Metro station, not far from the headquarters of the European Union, rescuers created a makeshift treatment centre in a local pub. commuters in the morning stunned and shocked broadcast from metro entries while the police tried to establish a security cordon.
The train was leaving the station Maalbeek to Schuman when there was a very loud explosion, said Alexandre Brans, 31, wiping the blood from his face. It was panic everywhere. There were a lot of people on the subway.
Francoise Le Dune, a spokesman for the Brussels Metro, said on BFM television that didn't seem to have been just an explosion in a car that was stopped at Maalbeek.
Rescuers ran through the street with two people on stretchers, their torn clothes.
The explosions at the airport hit the middle of the busiest time there. Smoke was seen out of the terminal.
The Amateur video shown on a France's i-Tele television showed passengers, including a child running with a backpack running out of the terminal in different directions as they trudged luggage, another image showed a security officer patrolling inside a room with blown-out panels and what seemed to be ceiling insulation that covers the floor.
I knew it was an explosion because I have been around to explosions before, said Denise Brandt, an American woman interviewed by Sky television.
I felt the explosion, what you feel through your body. And we just looked at each other and I said ' we're going to follow this path. Was there. There was just this instinct to stay away from him. Then we saw people running, crying, towards us. So, I knew we were headed in the right direction and away from him.
The passengers were taken to the track and the center of the crisis, Asked the people not to come to the airport.
Witnesses described to the ceiling caving in and blood everywhere after two explosions in the boarding lounge at Brussels Airport. All flights have been canceled arriving planes and trains were diverted and terror alert level was highly raised to Belgium as much. Authorities said people in Brussels to stay where they were bringing the city to a standstill. Security also has been beefed up in all Paris airports.
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European safety authorities have been prepared for a major attack for weeks and warned that the Islamic State was preparing actively. The arrest of Salah Abdeslam in Brussels last week heightened those fears, as investigators said that many people involved in the attacks on November 13 in Paris, which killed 130 people were still on the loose. After Abdeslam was arrested, Belgian Didier Reynders Chancellor said that authorities knew that he had created a new network around it and had access to several weapons, although there was no immediate indication that he or the Islamic State group had any involvement in Tuesday's attacks.
The Belgian media reported 12 people were killed at the airport. It wasn't clear if any died in the explosion. Zach Mouzoun, who arrived on a flight from Geneva about of 10 minutes before the first explosion, told BFM television that the second explosion, louder dropped ceilings and broken pipes, water mixing with the blood of victims.
It was atrocious. The ceilings have collapsed, according to him, there was blood everywhere, people injured, bags of all places.
We were walking in the rubble. It was a scene of war, he said.
Near the entrance of the Maelbeek Metro station, not far from the headquarters of the European Union, rescuers created a makeshift treatment centre in a local pub. commuters in the morning stunned and shocked broadcast from metro entries while the police tried to establish a security cordon.
The train was leaving the station Maalbeek to Schuman when there was a very loud explosion, said Alexandre Brans, 31, wiping the blood from his face. It was panic everywhere. There were a lot of people on the subway.
Francoise Le Dune, a spokesman for the Brussels Metro, said on BFM television that didn't seem to have been just an explosion in a car that was stopped at Maalbeek.
Rescuers ran through the street with two people on stretchers, their torn clothes.
The explosions at the airport hit the middle of the busiest time there. Smoke was seen out of the terminal.
The Amateur video shown on a France's i-Tele television showed passengers, including a child running with a backpack running out of the terminal in different directions as they trudged luggage, another image showed a security officer patrolling inside a room with blown-out panels and what seemed to be ceiling insulation that covers the floor.
I knew it was an explosion because I have been around to explosions before, said Denise Brandt, an American woman interviewed by Sky television.
I felt the explosion, what you feel through your body. And we just looked at each other and I said ' we're going to follow this path. Was there. There was just this instinct to stay away from him. Then we saw people running, crying, towards us. So, I knew we were headed in the right direction and away from him.
The passengers were taken to the track and the center of the crisis, Asked the people not to come to the airport.
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