Brussels airport attack 3 suspects 31 dead Brussels subway attacks Isis responsible

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Brussels airport attack 3 suspects 31 dead Brussels subway attacks Isis responsible. Henk Stuten, 50, who works for the European Commission in an office above the station, said, “We felt a boom, we felt the building tremble.” He added, “We saw through the windows that people were rushing out of the metro exit.” About 10 to 15 minutes later, the office was evacuated, Mr. Stuten said. Some people were “very calm,” and others were “very emotional,” he added. He said most of the wounded were on the Rue de la Loi, outside the station, which serves the area that houses most of the European Union’s core institutions. “There were colleagues who just five minutes before were in the metro,” he said. “You realize how close these things can come to you.” BRUSSELS TERROR ATTACK By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS 00:25 Brussels Airport Evacuated After Blasts Video Brussels Airport Evacuated After Blasts Planes, runways and terminals were cleared after two explosions rocked the city’s international airport. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on Publish Date March 22, 2016. Photo by Geert Vanden Wijngaert/Associated Press. Watch in Times Video » Embed ShareTweet Brian Carroll, 31, a communications consultant from Washington, said he was on a subway car near Maelbeek en route to a conference in downtown Brussels when he heard a loud blast. “As we were pulling into the station, there was suddenly a loud explosion,” he said in a phone interview. “There was smoke everywhere. Everyone dropped to the ground. People were screaming and crying.” Mr. Carroll said he had remained on the ground for one or two minutes, then got up, pried open a door of the subway car with his hands and fled. “I thought to myself, ‘I’ve got to get out of here,’ ” he said. “I headed toward an exit. There was smoke and soot everywhere. There was glass everywhere. It was like running through a cloud of dust. I saw the exit of the station was destroyed. I ran out of the station; I ran as far as I could.” Earlier in the morning, police officers taped off the numerous streets leading to the subway station as emergency vehicles raced to the blast site. Ambulances were clustered around the entrance, next to the normally busy Rue de la Loi, which runs through the heart of the so-called European quarter. A police helicopter flew overhead. Yvan Mayeur, the mayor of Brussels, warned that the death toll of 20 at the subway station could rise. “The situation in the subway is extremely chaotic,” he said at a news conference. “Forensic police have lots of work ahead to identify the victims. It will be long and difficult work.” 947 COMMENTS Belgium has emerged as a focus of counterterrorism investigators after the attacks in Paris. On Monday, the Belgian authorities asked for the public’s help in finding Najim Laachraoui, 24, who they identified as an accomplice of Mr. Abdeslam. The authorities are also searching for Mohamed Abrini, 31, who was filmed with Mr. Abdeslam at a gas station on a highway to Paris two days before the Nov. 13 attacks. not a threat