Explosion at Brussels Airport (Update: also at Molenbeek metro station) 34 dead

[Crumpets]

Just came across my Breaking News app - don't have much more information, but NBC is reporting "multiple casualties." I'll post a link when I find one.

[Crumpets]

Link: CNN reporting 2 explosions

http://www.cnn.com/2016/03/22/europe/brussels-explosions/index.html

[SPQR]

11 dead,apparently.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Belga news agency:

Some witness spoke about rifles and Arab words shouting before the blasts.

2 blasts would be confirmed.

Bordel

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Firemen also told Belga news agency that several other bombs have been found in the airport.

Also, well:

France
Belgium

...for IS so far apparently.

Mali
Burkina

...for AQ so far apparently.

Cameroun
Tchad

...for BH so far apparently.

Yay, Francophone world...

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

French police source to itélé:

Blasts in Bruxelles subway.

Putain...

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Blast confirmed in at least one subway station by AFP.

Tens of dead now reported in the ariport.

Best wishes to people there, notably Atlas posters.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Malbeek station, 'European disrict'.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

2 subway station, other being Schuman. next to Malbeek and CDnV according to France Inter, only Malbeek confirmed by Belgian officials though.

[Reaganfan]

Clearly a devastating coordinated terror attack on the city of Brussels. RIP to the victims.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

In fact, according to last France Inter flash, in Schuman subway station it's the blow of Malbeek that could make believe to an other blast, but only one in Malbeek would have happened.

So, so far, there would have been:

Riffles and 2 blasts in the airport.
1 major blast in Malbeek subway.

[Grand Wizard Lizard of the Klan]

RIP

Also, this might not be the end today. I hope that security forces in Belgium and other countries will be 100% ready.
And actually its pretty logical that terrorist in Belgium after so intense hunting on them decided to speed up their plans and I am sure that Belgian police/CT forces expected something like this.

[🦀🎂🦀🎂]

ugh. horrid.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

RIP

Also, this might not be the end today. I hope that security forces in Belgium and other countries will be 100% ready.
And actually its pretty logical that terrorist in Belgium after so intense hunting on them decided to speed up their plans and I am sure that Belgian police/CT forces expected something like this.

Not trying to make a polemic about that, but here, sometimes politicians are so heavy with that, that you almost could think they wish something like this, hope Belgian ones won't turn as insane with that.

And yeah, given all what happened in Belgium since at least Verviers, it would have been surprising nothing was expected.

Still, maybe nothing...that big.

[dead0man]

...

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Official Belgian authorities report:

13 dead people
35 wounded

Phone system saturated, it asks people to only use texting or social networks.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Sigh.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

It's ok, everything is under control...

AFP now gives 21 dead people.

Some policee sources say that it's been quite murderous in the subway too.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Bernard Cazeneuve, French interior Ministry, taking advantage of it to justify the [sometimes insane, abusive, and in the end counter-productive] emergency state security measures that has been taken in France.

Kudos.

Also, apparently, new ones will be taken, it seems it gonna be forbidden to enter an airport/station without ID transports tickets in France now.

1.600 policemen on the way all over the country, 400 in Paris, for new security measures.

Thalys and Eurostar cut, Bruxelles becoming a kinda shut/dead city.

1 suicide bomber confirmed by police in the airport.

[Bunwahaha [still dunno why, but well, so be it]]

Crazy how each time, in each country, 'strong' or not, a handful of guys manage to put the whole society upside down.

[Helsinkian]

All the European politicians will say they are in shock. They will wear a Belgian flag pin in their jacket lapels. They will march hand in hand in a memorial.

And right after that, they will go back to business as usual: having learnt nothing, they will continue to open Europe's borders to the people who commit these atrocities. And they will call their critics racists.

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, maybe we should get the hint regarding the attempts to make islam and Western civilization co-exist.

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28 dead now. Oh wow.

This is the next Paris.

[Middle-aged Europe]

All the European politicians will say they are in shock. They will wear a Belgian flag pin in their jacket lapels. They will march hand in hand in a memorial.

And right after that, they will go back to business as usual: having learnt nothing, they will continue to open Europe's borders to the people who commit these atrocities. And they will call their critics racists.

If the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again expecting different results, maybe we should get the hint regarding the attempts to make islam and Western civilization co-exist.

Shut the f**k up.

[mvd10]

14 dead in Zaventem (the airport) and 20 dead in Malenbeek (the metro station) according to VRT

[Helsinkian]

Shut the f**k up.

Wow, what an impressive argument!