Images on social media show smoke rising from the terminal.
Two explosions at Brussels' airport, possibly close to a check-in desk, have caused casualties, authorities in Belgium said Tuesday. The cause of the blast was not immediately clear. Belgian broadcaster RTBF reported that some of the injured may be unconscious in the departure terminal. It said, citing firefighters, that preliminary information indicated that 11 people are dead and at least 20 wounded. Those numbers have not been confirmed by police.
The airport was being evacuated and all flights were cancelled. Zaventem airport serves about 24 million people a year. Alex Rossi, a journalist for Sky News who was in the duty-free area of the airport at the time of the explosions, told Yahoo: "There was panic, people trying to find shelter where they were after we heard those two explosions. I could feel the building move. There was also dust and smoke as well.”
The incident follows the arrest of Salah Abdeslam, a suspect in November's Paris attacks who was captured in Brussels last week after a four-month manhunt.
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