Witnesses detailed the horror they experienced during the terrorist attacks in Brussels on March 22.
Bombs hit the Brussels airport and subway. The scene at the airport was chaotic, with blood splattered, collapsed ceilings and windows blown out. At least one of the bombs was detonated by a suicide bomber.
An employee who works for the check-in and baggage services firm Swissport, said the first bomb went off near the counter where passengers pay for overweight luggage.
“Twenty meters from us we heard a big explosion,” he said. “It’s like when you’re in a party and suddenly your hearing go out, from like a big noise,” said the worker, Anthony Deloos.
He initially thought a billboard had fallen down until a coworker told him to run.
“I jumped into a luggage chute to be safe,” said Deloos.
Marc Noel was waiting for his Atlanta-bound Delta flight on his way back home to Raleigh, North Carolina.
While he bought magazines at a store in the airport, the first bomb detonated about 50 yards away from him.
“People were crying, shouting—children. It was a horrible experience,” said Noel.
He also said that stopping by to buy magazines might have saved his life.
“I would probably have been in that place when the bomb went off.”
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