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Two explosions detonated at Brussels airport Brussels airport shut down after multiple explosions
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BRUSSELS — Two explosions were detonated at Brussels’ Zaventem Airport Tuesday morning at about 8 a.m., causing heavy damage and causing the airport to be closed. BRUSSELS — Two explosions rocked Brussels’ Zaventem Airport Tuesday morning at about 8 a.m., causing heavy damage, possible casualties and closing the airport.
Early, unconfirmed reports said several people were injured in the blasts, which caused smoke to appear from the departure building. The Belgian news agency reported that one person died and several were injured in the explosions, at least one of which took place in the departure hall near the American Airlines check-in counter.
Eyewitnesses report that one of the explosions went off near the American Airlines check-in counter. The airport was closed, as well as the major roadway leading to the airport, the BBC reported. Flights were diverted to Liege airport, radio reports said.
The airport was closed, as well as the major roadway leading to the airport, the BBC reported. Belgian authorities raised the city’s terror threat level to maximum after the explosions.
Damage to the airport has been extensive, the BBC said. Another explosion took place in the Brussels metro Thursday morning following the airport attack, the BBC reported, citing a Belgian broadcaster.
The explosion comes just four days after the arrest of Salah Abdeslam, the last known participant in the November attacks on Paris. Abdeslam, 26, was arrested in Brussels’ Molenbeek neighborhood. Amateur video taken immediately after the airport attack showed streams of panicked passengers running out of the airport shortly after the explosions occurred.
Deane reported from London. Large clouds of smoke bellowed from the blown-out windows of a terminal building.
Damage to the airport has been extensive, news reports said. Eyewitnesses reported a massive amount of broken glass in the departure hall.
Brussels airport tweeted news of the explosions, beseeching people to stay away.
One person, who was in a taxi pulling up to the departures terminal, said she felt and heard two explosions in short succession, “one further away, one closer.”
“We saw a few people injured, we saw the glass front of the building had exploded, glass flying around,” said Daniela Schwarzer, the head of the Berlin office of the German Marshall Fund of the United States, who was leaving Brussels after a weekend conference there.
The bombing comes just four days after the arrest of Salah Abdeslam, the last known participant in the November attacks on Paris. Abdeslam, 26, was arrested in Brussels’ Molenbeek neighborhood.
Deane reported from London. Michael Birnbaum contributed from Moscow. Anthony Faiola contributed from Berlin.
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