Brussels Blast 'Felt Like End Of The World'

A woman injured in the Zaventem airport bombing describes how there was "blood everywhere" after the "enormous" explosion

A survivor of the Brussels airport attack has said the blast felt like "the end of the world".

Fanny Klein was waiting to check her luggage in when the explosions ripped through the terminal, leaving more than a dozen people dead.

The 20-year-old from the island of Reunion told the Belgian newspaper HLN: "I didn't even have time to look around me because I had just then arrived at the check-in.

"There was no time to say a word and then all of a sudden … it was an enormous noise … the end of the world in a second.

"And I found myself on the floor. There was blood everywhere. Everything was grey."

Ms Klein managed to make her way outside and quickly realised she was burned.

"I caught sight of myself in a mirror and I was half burned - I didn't look too much.

"It burned, it just burned. I didn't really feel my leg - it was the burns that hurt most."

She added: "I did what I had to do, like everybody … wait for help. I knew that help would be coming. The people around me were so nice."

In total, the attacks at Zaventem airport and Maalbeek metro station in the Belgian capital have killed at least 31 people and injured another 300.

Four Britons were among those hurt, and worried relatives have said they are "desperately" searching for David Dixon - a man originally from Hartlepool who is feared to have been on Brussels' subway system at the time of the Maalbeek explosion.

:: In the UK, anyone affected or concerned about others caught up in the attacks can call +442070080000.

:: The Belgian Crisis Centre has also set up a helpline for people calling from outside Belgium: +3278151771. Those in Belgium are asked to call 1771.