A Belgian police officer told an AFP reporter that there are wounded and dead at the Maalbeek metro station near the EU institutions in Brussels.
Via Reuters:
The deadly explosions at Brussels airport were carried out by a suicide bomber, Belgium's federal prosecutor said, broadcasters VTM and RTBF reported.
The latest from our news desk:
European leaders have condemned the deadly explosions that struck Brussels airport and the metro system.
Reports from Belgium say three explosions struck Brussels airport and a city metro station on March 22, killing at least 13 people.
Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven described the blasts as "an attack against democratic Europe."
"It is an attack against democratic Europe,” Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven said in a statement. “We will never accept that terrorists attack our open societies."
Danish Prime Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen denounced the blasts on Twitter as a "despicable attack."
Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte said Belgium has "again been hit by cowardly and murderous attacks.”
Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said President Vladimir Putin “strongly condemned these barbaric crimes."
Based on reporting by AFP, AP, TASS, and Interfax
Via AFP
Belgian firefighters said there were at least 21 dead after "enormous" blasts hit Brussels airport and the city's metro system.
Unconfirmed footage from the explosion at Maalbeek metro station.
Our correspondent Rikard Jozwiak live from Brussels.
Via AFP:
Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said Brussels was hit by two "blind, violent and cowardly" attacks on its airport and metro system which left many dead and wounded.
"Two attacks took place this morning in Zaventam airport and Maalbeek metro station, blind, violent, cowardly attacks," Michel announced on national television.
"There are many dead and many wounded, some of them seriously," he said, with the death toll so far put at 21.