Belgian authorities have confirmed that at least one person has died after two blasts at Brussels Airport this morning, understood to be at the American Airlines check-in desk.
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Police told Belga news agency that at least one person had been killed and several others wounded.
The BBC said the meeting comes amid claims by the families that, four months after the attacks, they are being ignored.
Belgian prosecutors on Monday said they had discovered the real identity of a possible accomplice of Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam, as they met with French counterparts to discuss the probe into November’s carnage.
Pictures on social media showed smoke rising from the terminal building through shattered windows and passengers running away down a slipway, some still hauling their bags. And we just looked at each other and I said let’s go this way.
Only one of that trio has been identified: Bilal Hadfi, a 20-year-old French national who was living in Belgium and who had also travelled to Syria.
Reports say that soon after Salah Abdeslam’s arrest, the intelligence officials had warned that he had planned something big in Brussels. Belgium’s federal prosecutor has said the fugitive relied on a network of friends and relatives involved in drug dealing and petty crime.
Video footage released by a French TV channel on Monday (March 21) shows how special forces tackled last week’s raid in Brussels leading to the arrest the prime surviving suspect for November’s Paris attacks.
Laachraoui, who also has used the alias Soufiane Kayal, is considered unsafe and should not be approached, authorities said.
“When you have weapons and terrorists at the same place, that means an attack was being prepared”, Jambon said.
RTBF said the blasts at the airport on the northwest outskirts of Brussels hit shortly after 8:00am (0700 GMT).
“The immediate management of victims needs to be improved, because there will be other attacks”, Aurelia Gilbert, a member of a victims group told France-Info radio.
“It is now up to the Belgian authorities – and them alone – to decide”.
“But I am still, and we are still, far from solving the puzzle”, Frederic Van Leeuw told a news conference.
Also in the vehicle was Mohammed Belkaid, who was shot dead by a police sniper during a raid in the Brussels suburb of Forest last Tuesday, an operation that led to Mr Abdeslam’s capture a few days later.
He used the same false name at the border between Austria and Hungary on September 9 when he was travelling with Salah Abdeslam and Mohamed Belkaid.
Abdeslam has a court hearing on Wednesday.
Belgian foreign minister Didier Reynders said on Sunday that Abdeslam – who has been charged with “terrorist murder” and belonging to a terrorist group – had already told investigators he was planning some sort of new attack in Brussels.
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Abdeslam’s lawyer, Sven Mary, promised to fight arduously to defend his client and said he would file a complaint against French prosecutors on Monday for violating the confidentiality of an ongoing investigation.
