The blown out windows of Zaventem airport after a deadly terrorist attack in Brussels today.
BRUSSELS — A series of deadly terrorist attacks struck Brussels on Tuesday, with two explosions at the city’s main international airport and a third in a subway station at the heart of the city, near the headquarters of the European Union.
At least one of the two airport explosions was touched off by a suicide bomber, officials said. At least 34 people were killed — 14 at the airport and 20 at the subway station — and many more wounded, including 92 at the airport and 106 at the subway station.
“We were fearing terrorist attacks, and that has now happened,” Prime Minister Charles Michel of Belgium said at a news conference, calling the attacks “blind, violent, cowardly.”
On Twitter, he called on people to “avoid all movement,” as the authorities braced for the possibility of additional violence.
In the afternoon, Amaq, a news agency affiliated with the Islamic State, issued a bulletin saying the militant group was responsibile for the attacks. “Islamic State fighters carried out a series of bombings with explosive belts and devices on Tuesday, targeting an airport and a central metro station in the center of the Belgian capital, Brussels, a country participating in the coalition against the Islamic State,” it said. “Islamic State fighters opened fire inside the Zaventem airport, before several of them detonated their explosive belts, as a martyrdom bomber detonated his explosive belt in the Maelbeek metro station.”
..The crime bombing in Belgium is horrible. Innocent lives been lost and property been destructed. These who committed such these atrocities are not human beings or least Muslims. They shame all Muslims.
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Terrorists write their messages in the blood of their victims and use timing and location to underline their points. The message hidden in today’s Brussels attacks.
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Chilling footage shows terrified passengers running for their lives after suicide bomb blasts rock Brussels Airport in series of attacks that killed 34 across the city
Hundreds of terrified passengers ran from the terminal, some of them covered in blood (left), after the blasts rocked the building at around 8am (7am GMT). Pictures show the terminal windows blown out (centre) and roof tiles littering the floor after falling from the ceiling from the force of the explosions. Smoke was also seen rising high into the sky. Witnesses said they 'felt the shockwaves' of the blasts which are believed to have centred on the American Airlines check-in desk. Brussels is on high alert following the capture last Friday of Salah Abdeslam, the most-wanted man in Europe, in the Molenbeek neighbourhood of the city after a four-month search. Just yesterday Belgium's Interior Minister Jan Jambon said the country was braced for a possible revenge attack following the capture of 26-year-old Abdeslam.
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