PHOTOS. Attacks at the airport and the subway of Brussels – The Obs

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Brussels was rocked Tuesday, March 22 by several coordinated terrorist attacks, with powerful explosions in the subway and at the international airport, one of which probably caused by a suicide bomber, who made thirty dead, more than 200 wounded and paralyzed the capital of Europe. Here is a picture taken inside the airport shortly after the blast.

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Published on 22-03-2016 at 10:52 – updated at 15:52 The Obs

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Brussels was rocked Tuesday, March 22 by several coordinated terrorist attacks, with powerful explosions in the subway and International airport, one of which probably caused by a suicide bomber, who made thirty dead, over 200 injured and paralyzed the capital of Europe. Here is a picture taken inside the airport, shortly after the blast.

(Ketevan Kardava, / AP / SIPA)

14 people were killed and 96 injured at Zaventem airport, according to firefighters

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This terrible picture was taken by a subway conductor to Maelbeek station relays RTL Belgium on Twitter . it demonstrates the extreme violence of the explosion. the still provisional balance sheet varies from “half dead” according to firefighters to “probably about twenty deaths” and 106 wounded, according to the mayor of Brussels.

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Inside Brussels-Zaventem airport during the attacks, Tuesday, March 22.

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A man belonging to a security service helps an injured person outside the metro Maelbeek The explosion blew a train that had stopped in the station.

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A man supported by relief at the subway exit

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The metro is 300 meters from the European Commission

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The terrorism alert has passed for all of Belgium at its maximum level of 4 and Brussels airport was closed “until further notice”. the metro traffic was suspended as traffic Thalys trains to France.

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Photos taken by witnesses and posted on social networks also reveal the chaos at the International Airport Brussels-Zaventem, where two explosions occurred.

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The front of the airport of Zaventem blown by the explosion

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” The whole building shook, there was smoke everywhere and people were left on the ground in the terminal. They did not have the air wounded, but have probably thrown to the ground. He fell from the roof debris, “he told a reporter for the Swedish newspaper” Svenska Dagbladet “.

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Shots were heard in the departure hall of Brussels International Airport, before a nobody starts shouting in Arabic and that two explosions ring out, said several witnesses quoted by the Belga news agency.

(Ketevan Kardava, / AP / SIPA

Images broadcast by Belgian media showed plumes of smoke amounting airport. people fled in panic, leaving their luggage at the airport.

(Daniela Schwarzer / AP / SIPA)

Then shortly after, an explosion occurred in a subway station of the European quarter in Brussels. Here is a photo taken during the evacuation of a train nearby.

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black smoke escapes from the entrance to the Maelbeek station located rue de la Loi, near the European institutions. These explosions occur four days after the dramatic capture of Salah Abdeslam, a French of Moroccan origin, the sole survivor of the commando author of jihadist attacks of 13 November in Paris (130 dead), in Molenbeek, a Brussels commune.

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After the attack on the subway at Maelbeek. The level of terrorism alert happened Tuesday morning for the whole of Belgium at its maximum level, level 4, after the explosions at Brussels airport, said a spokesman for the Interior Minister Jan Jambon .

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After the attacks, the evacuation of Brussels airport.

Geert Vanden Wijngaert / AP / SIPA

the policemen posted at the exit of the subway station Maelbeek after explosion. The safety of nuclear power has been strengthened, announced Belga, and face the threat of saturation of the mobile communications network, the public was asked to avoid non-emergency calls.

EMMANUEL DUNAND / AFP

military reaching the streets of law after the explosion at the Maelbeek metro station. These attacks have triggered an increase in the terrorism alert to the maximum level, a closure until further notice from the Brussels International Airport, as well as strengthening security in airports in London, Paris, Frankfurt and Copenhagen, while Europe is the target of a wave of terrorist attacks particularly deadly.

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