Update | At least 31 dead after terrorist attack on Brussels; bomb blasts hit airport and metro station
Belgian capital in lockdown as Islamic State claims responsibility for blasts, days after arrest of suspect in Paris attacks
Multiple blasts have killed and injured scores in the Belgian capital of Brussels, as transport hubs were hit.
Twenty-six people have been confirmed dead and some agencies report up to 34 may have perished in the dual blasts at Brussels airport and a separate explosion in the city’s Metro.
Islamic State have claimed responsibility for the attack, Reuters reported.
The Brussels public transport operator said 15 were killed on board the metro train and 55 injured.
Pierre Meys, a spokesman for the Brussels fire brigade, told AFP 11 people died in twin blasts at Brussels airport.
There were also “around ten killed at the Maalbeek metro station where there was an enormous explosion,” he said.