By: ABC News.
Victims lay in pools of blood as the smoke cleared to reveal a scene of horror after twin explosions ripped through the main terminal at Brussels Airport, witnesses said.
The blasts smashed the windows of the departure hall and sent ceiling tiles shattering to the floor.
“A man shouted a few words in Arabic and then I heard a huge blast,” airport baggage security officer Alphonse Lyoura, who still had blood on his hands following the explosion, told AFP.
He said there was another explosion about two minutes later.
“I helped at least six or seven wounded people. We took out some bodies that were not moving. It was total panic everywhere,” Mr Lyoura said.
“I saw people lying on the ground covered in blood who were not moving.
“At least six or seven people’s legs were totally crushed. A lot of people lost limbs.
“One man had lost both legs and there was a policeman with a totally mangled leg.”
Witness and Belgian David Crunelle, 36, was at the airport to catch a flight to Japan.
“An explosion happened in the terminal for the US departures. I think it was American Airlines terminal. Two explosions, [with] like two or three seconds between the two explosions. Everything went dark,” he told 7.30.
“There was a lot of people injured. Instantly, everybody, they started screaming and crying a lot, exiting — the people from the airport and from the airline companies — everybody went out without knowing what to do but it went well.”