“I’m still waiting for that to hit me”.
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Footage has been posted to social media showing the aftermath of the blast above ground, and of passengers escaping the metro system afterwards.
Brussels is now in lockdown as the terror level was raised to its maximum after the attacks. In the light of these attacks, that becomes more hard. We have just been stopped due to an “incident on the line”. When we know who this was and why they did it then that helps a long way to understanding what we need to do not to become part of the terrorist game and what we can do to help each other move forward.
Maria Labanauskaite grew up in Buncrana and now lives in Brussels. My French is okay and I’ve learnt a bit of Dutch – it becomes home so it also feels like a bit of an attack on your home routine. Till now, 34 people have been declared dead, and over 40 have been injured in the most deadly attacks in Europe, since the Paris attacks in 2015. Today was the culmination of our worst held fears that something could happen here.
The man and woman were seen comforting one another outside the Maelbeek Metro station while a man lay covered in blood just feet away.
She told the Democrat, “I was about to get on the pre-metro to my language courses in the city centre when I read BBC News updates”. I for one won’t be leaving Brussels as a result of this.
“At this point, Belgium is, per capita, by far the European nation contributing the most to the foreign element in the Syrian War”, said Belgian Arabist and author Pieter van Ostaeyen.
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The victims of a series of blasts in the Belgian capital have yet to be identified, Brussels City Mayor Yvan Mayeur said Tuesday. “Here you can see brown, black and white people and I’m really happy about that because that’s what Brussels has always been and always will be”.
