Paralysed with fear, passengers hid under their suitcases on the floor (left) and ducked down under check-in desks (top right) while others dashed to safety as twin blasts ripped through the terminal, killing at least 14 people and injuring dozens of others. In the chaos, police officers (bottom right) tried to direct terrified survivors through the smoke and debris.
Pictures show the terminal windows blown out and roof tiles littering the floor after falling from the ceiling from the force of the explosions. 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.
Video showed terrified passengers running for their lives out of the building.
Decramer says the wounded have fractures and deep cuts caused by flying glass and nails.
Via - Daily Mail
Pictures show the terminal windows blown out and roof tiles littering the floor after falling from the ceiling from the force of the explosions. 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.
Cowering under desks and running for their lives, this is the terrifying moment passengers were caught up in an ISIS suicide bomb attack at Brussels Airport today in a series of blasts that have killed at least 34 people and injured 170 across the city.
Witnesses described apocalyptic scenes with blood and 'dismembered bodies everywhere' after two blasts rocked the terminal at around 8am (7am GMT), killing at least 14 people and injuring dozens of others.
Then 79 minutes later at 9.19am, at least 20 people were killed and scores injured, some critically, when a blast hit a Metro station just 400 metres from the EU headquarters in the city centre.
At the airport, there were reports of a firefight between police and the attackers who shouted in Arabic moments before detonating their bombs, one of which was understood to contain nails.
An unexploded suicide vest was later found in the rubble and a Kalashnikov rifle beside the body of a dead terrorist. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attacks.
The blasts, which detonated near a Starbucks and several check-in desks, sent shockwaves through the terminal building, shattering windows and knocking roof tiles off the ceiling as terrified passengers ran for their lives.
The explosions, coming just four months after the Paris attacks, have left countries around the world reeling, with security services placed on high alert, flights cancelled, Eurostar services suspended and France's border with Belgium shut down.
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Passengers shield themselves under bags as smoke and debris fill the terminal in the moments after the twin blast at Brussels Airport
Terrified passengers run for their lives in a cloud of smoke moments after the explosions ripped through the terminal
A man runs for cover: Witnesses described apocalyptic scenes with blood and 'dismembered bodies everywhere' after the two blasts
A terrified passenger cowers under a check-in desk moments after two explosions rocked Brussels Airport in a suicide bomb attack today
An person is carried to safety as troops helped the injured and secured the area after the explosions in the terminal building
A police officer directs passengers in a smoke filled terminal at Brussels Airport after two explosions ripped through the terminal
Fires burn among bags and debris as passengers flee the terminal in the immediate aftermath of two explosions at the check-in desks
FIRST ATTACK: At least 14 people have died and dozens injured after two explosions rocked Brussels Airport in a terror attack today
Obliterated: Ceiling tiles and debris are littered across the floor of the terminal building after twins blast rocked the check-in area
Shocking: Injured passengers are covered in blood and dust after the explosions rocked the terminal building at Brussels Airport
SECOND ATTACK: The image above is being used by the Belgian media who claim this is the damage caused by the bomb at the Maelbeek Metro station in central Brussels 79 minutes after the first attack. It has not been verified but is being widely circulated on social media
Aftermath: A man lies stricken on the pavement as survivors kiss in relief after surviving the bombing at the Metro station in Maelbeek
Two suspects were arrested a mile from the Maelbeek metro station at around 11am as hundreds of troops and police flooded the streets
Two men are pinned to the floor and handcuffed by police as soldiers stand guard near the North station in central Brussels
Two suspects were arrested a mile from the Maelbeek metro station at around 11am as hundreds of troops and police flooded the streets of Brussels in the hunt for members of the terror cell.
Soldiers have been also been deployed at the airport and other key locations across the capital.
The Tihange nuclear power plant, around 90km from the capital, is being evacuated of all non-essential staff as Belgium raised security to its maximum level.
The bombings come just a day after the Belgium Interior Minister warned of possible revenge attacks after the arrest of Paris massacre suspect Salah Abdeslam in the city on Friday.
Yesterday, a secret police dossier also revealed there could be up to 90 'kamikazes' waiting to launch suicide bomb attacks in Europe after returning from Syria disguised as migrants.
Speaking today, Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said: 'What we feared has happened.
'In this time of tragedy, this black moment for our country, I appeal to everyone to remain calm but also to show solidarity.'
Terror gripped the airport at around 7am local time (8am GMT) as passengers checked in their bags and prepared to board flights.
Photographs from inside the arrivals hall showed the floor covered in fallen tiles and dust as bloodied people hobbled out of the airport. Others injured were photographed lying on the floor.
Video showed terrified passengers running for their lives out of the building.
Firefighters who entered the terminal to search for survivors are said to have found a third unexploded device, while armed police in protective clothing combed the building for more wounded travellers and suspicious bags.
The British Foreign Office today confirmed one Briton was injured in the explosions, while three American missionaries from Utah are believed to have been seriously hurt.
A Belgian TV station is reporting that at least one of the bombs at the Brussels airport contained nails.
Broadcaster VTM interviewed Marc Decramer of the Gasthuisberg hospital in Leuven, who says the hospital is treating 11 people with serious injuries, three of them in critical condition.
Decramer says the wounded have fractures and deep cuts caused by flying glass and nails.
Samir Derrouich, who works at a restaurant in the airport, told MailOnline: 'The two explosions were almost simultaneous.
'They were both at a check-in desk. One was close to the Starbucks. It was awful. There was just blood. It was like the apocalypse.'
Dries Valaert, 30, was waiting to get his boarding pass from a check in desk when the blast struck.
He said: 'There was a first blast and then ten seconds later a second explosion. It was a big, big blast, the ceiling went down. It was just 30 metres from where I was.
'I saw people down on the ground and I just went running. I jumped over the security fences towards the departure gates as I thought it would be safer.
'My first intuition was to get out in case their were attackers with guns. I saw a woman around 18 years old with a hole in her hand with blood pouring out and a man with an injured ankle and two people down. There was lots of panic. People were running all over the place.'
Mr Valaert, who was flying to a business meeting in Berlin, said he believed the bombs were hidden in suitcases that had just been checked in.
He said: 'The explosions were just behind the service desks, they were blown towards us. To me it is the most realistic possibility. I don't think it was someone with a suicide vest.'
Via - Daily Mail
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