01:29Belgium: Brussels airport evacuated following deadly attack
Thousands of commuters and staff were evacuated from Brussels international airport, Tuesday, after a deadly bomb attack earlier that morning which killed at least 14 people and injured 81.
An hour later another explosion struck the Maelbeek metro station in Brussels city centre, killing at least 20 people and leaving dozens seriously injured. The incidents occurred four days after Salah Abdeslam, a suspect in November's jihadist attacks in Paris that killed 130 people, was captured by Belgian police in Brussels.
Commenting on the attack at the airport, one witness said: "I thought I saw two dead girls and as I approached them I saw that they were living, they were alive both of them and all the world was spinning around. I told them that we should go and leave the place. But they survived. It was as if they were dead. What is life? Panic, shock."
Belgium's chief prosecutor has described the incidents as a "terrorist attack" and said that at least one of the bombings was likely the work of a suicide bomber. Belgium has now raised its terrorism threat to its highest level.
01:29Thousands of commuters and staff were evacuated from Brussels international airport, Tuesday, after a deadly bomb attack earlier that morning which killed at least 14 people and injured 81.
An hour later another explosion struck the Maelbeek metro station in Brussels city centre, killing at least 20 people and leaving dozens seriously injured. The incidents occurred four days after Salah Abdeslam, a suspect in November's jihadist attacks in Paris that killed 130 people, was captured by Belgian police in Brussels.
Commenting on the attack at the airport, one witness said: "I thought I saw two dead girls and as I approached them I saw that they were living, they were alive both of them and all the world was spinning around. I told them that we should go and leave the place. But they survived. It was as if they were dead. What is life? Panic, shock."
Belgium's chief prosecutor has described the incidents as a "terrorist attack" and said that at least one of the bombings was likely the work of a suicide bomber. Belgium has now raised its terrorism threat to its highest level.