Anthony Deloos, an airport worker for Swissport, which handles check-in and baggage services, said the first explosion took place near the counters where customers pay for overweight baggage. He and a colleague said the second blast hit near a Starbucks cafe."We heard a big explosion. It's like when you're in a party and suddenly your hearing goes out, from like a big noise," Deloos said, adding that shredded paper floated through the air as a colleague told him to run."I jumped into a luggage chute to be safe," he said.'
It was baggage and not a suicide bomber. Overweight baggage. It all makes sense. The next blast was 10 to 15 seconds later at a location near the baggage area in the main terminal. The people running from the first explosion would have be near this bomb when it took more lives.
Tom De Doncker, 21, check-in agent intern, was near the site of the second explosion."I saw a soldier pulling away a body," he said. "It felt like I was hit too" from the concussion of the blast.
March 23, 2016
More than two dozen people (click here) were killed when bombs exploded in Belgium's capital - two at the main international airport and one on a downtown subway train near European Union headquarters. Witnesses described chaotic scenes of blood, dust and flying glass as the blasts hit transport hubs in the middle of a busy rush hour. Here are some of their accounts:...
...Zach Mouzoun, who arrived on a flight from Geneva about 10 minutes before the first blast, told BFM television that the second, louder explosion brought down ceilings and ruptured pipes, mixing water with victims' blood."It was atrocious. The ceilings collapsed," he said. "There was blood everywhere, injured people, bags everywhere. We were walking in the debris. It was a war scene," he said.
People were hit not just by nails (shrapnel) they were hit by debris. When a mad man makes plans there is always an assessment where to place the bomb for maximal effect. Glass is a great ingredient to add to the plan.
More than two dozen people (click here) were killed when bombs exploded in Belgium's capital - two at the main international airport and one on a downtown subway train near European Union headquarters. Witnesses described chaotic scenes of blood, dust and flying glass as the blasts hit transport hubs in the middle of a busy rush hour. Here are some of their accounts:...
...Zach Mouzoun, who arrived on a flight from Geneva about 10 minutes before the first blast, told BFM television that the second, louder explosion brought down ceilings and ruptured pipes, mixing water with victims' blood."It was atrocious. The ceilings collapsed," he said. "There was blood everywhere, injured people, bags everywhere. We were walking in the debris. It was a war scene," he said.
People were hit not just by nails (shrapnel) they were hit by debris. When a mad man makes plans there is always an assessment where to place the bomb for maximal effect. Glass is a great ingredient to add to the plan.
Marc Noel, 63, was about to board a Delta flight to Atlanta, to return to his home in North Carolina. The Belgian native said he was in a shop buying magazines when the first explosion occurred about 46 metres away."People were crying, shouting, children. It was a horrible experience." His decision to shop might have saved his life. "I would probably have been in that place when the bomb went off."
Jef Versele, 40, from Ghent, Belgium, said he was at the airport and about to check in when he heard two blasts and suddenly the air was full of broken glass.
"Everything was coming down - glassware. It was chaos, it was unbelievable. It was the worst thing," he said.
"People were running away. There were lots of people on the ground. A lot of people are injured."
Jordy van Overmeir had just collected his luggage after landing at the airport from Bangkok when "all of a sudden I heard a loud explosion - this boom. Initially I thought it was the sound of a suitcase falling down."
"At this point I saw all these policemen running around, shouting and saying 'there was an explosion," he told Sky News.
