Bombs struck the Brussels airport and one of the city’s metro stations on Tuesday, killing at least 31 people and injuring scores of others. At least one of the two airport blasts, which blew out some windows, was attributed to a suicide bomber.
Here are scenes from the aftermath of the attacks via the Associated Press:
Smoke billows from the Zaventem Airport after a controlled explosion, in Brussels. (AP Photo/Michel Spingler)
In this image made from video, emergency rescue workers stretcher an unidentified person at the site of an explosion at a metro station in Brussels, Belgium. (APTN via AP)
Security forces secure a street in Brussels, Belgium after the new series of terror attacks struck the city. (Federico Gambarini/picture-alliance/dpa/AP Images)
The metro system has been shut down in Brussels in the wake of the terrorist attacks on Zaventem airport and Maebeek metro station. (Photo by Dominic Dudley / Pacific Press)
People react outside Brussels airport after explosions rocked the facility. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
A family looks out of the window of a bus after being evacuated from Brussels airport. Authorities locked down the Belgian capital and raised its terror alert to its highest level, diverting arriving planes and trains and ordering people to stay where they were. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
Passengers who have had their flight to Brussels canceled wait at the Barcelona airport. Explosions prompted a lockdown of the Belgian capital and heightened security across Europe. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
People stand near Brussels airport after being evacuated following explosions that rocked the facility. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
People walk away from the broken windows at Zaventem Airport in Brussels after an explosion. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
People react as they walk away from Brussels airport after explosions rocked the facility. Explosions rocked the Brussels airport and the subway system Tuesday, just days after the main suspect in the November Paris attacks was arrested in the city, police said. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)
Passengers who have had their flight to Brussels canceled wait at the Barcelona airport, Spain. (AP Photo/Emilio Morenatti)
Travelers stand in a long queue after services were suspended on the Brussels Eurostar train route because of the attacks in Belgium, at St Pancras international railway station in London. (AP Photo/Matt Dunham)
After attacks in Brussels, a candle wrapped in a ribbon in the colors of the Belgium national flag and flowers are placed on a table inside the Belgium Embassy in Berlin, Germany. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber)
A woman lays flowers by the Belgian Embassy in Moscow. (Eugene Odinokov/Sputnik via AP)
I sit in my comfortable safe living room in Oregon USA seeing yet another murderous attack on innocent human beings on the other side of the Atlantic and try to make sense of this world I live in.
Even more troubling for me are the words from two candidates for America’s highest office today. That these two xenophobic assholes are able to put forth their hate and fear and have it put on display by our media for the rest of the world to hear and read is frankly disgusting.
America is better than this and we deserve better from those who say they wish to lead us.
Lead us where? And why on earth should we want to follow either of you deeply flawed purveyors of fear and hate?
The planet is becoming a much smaller place. We already have more fear and hate than we can handle. And Americans are much stronger and better people than you’re capable of leading.
So how about you just STFU and let people do what can be done in light of today’s events.
If you can’t help then don’t hurt. Just shut up.
What a bunch of shitty mundane pictures. I am all for showing what bombs actually do to bodies.
The way these things get covered you’d think mass attacks look like a bunch of people standing around holding their heads with pained expressions. I understand of course the presumptive courtesy to surviving families of not showing their dead. But the whitewash is sickening. If I die in a terrorist attack or some other act of extreme violence, please, SHOW IT ON TV in all its gruesomeness.