It is only 4 hours after the attack so reports are still fragmentary and probably to a greater or lesser extent inaccurate. We do have this headline: Brussels airport and metro attacks kill 21
At least 21 people have been killed after an apparent suicide attack ripped through Zaventem Airport in Brussels and another blast hit a city metro station.
Shots were fired and Arabic shouted before the two airport bomb blasts, according to Belgian news agency Belga.
Maalbeek metro station was targeted in a separate attack during the morning rush hour.
Brussels fire brigade spokesman Pierre Meys said 11 people died in the twin blasts at Brussels airport, and at least 10 killed at the metro station explosion.
‘Most of the wounded have been evacuated. The scene is rather chaotic,’ he said.
Zach Mouzoun, who arrived at the airport on a flight from Geneva about 10 minutes before the first blast, told France’s BFMTV: ‘It was atrocious. The ceilings collapsed. There was blood everywhere, injured people, bags everywhere.
And of course macabre though it may be I have to wonder if these attacks will have an effect on today’s primaries?
They certainly will strengthen the anti-immigrant parties of Europe.
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2 responses to “Brussels Airport Attacked”
Almost certainly the attacks were carried out by racist white nationalists and not by adherents to The Religion of Piece.
Our brave Captain and his loyal followers could have stopped the carnage by blocking the highway to the Brussels airport. More effective than any run-of-the-mill military special operations unit, that’s for sure.
CR,
You are trying to be rational. Elections are not like that.