Flags at half mast in Portsmouth after Brussels bombs

By The Newsroom
Published 22nd Mar 2016, 11:14 BST
Updated 22nd Mar 2016, 11:22 BST
Picture: Jef Versele via FacebookPicture: Jef Versele via Facebook
Picture: Jef Versele via Facebook
FLAGS outside the civic offices in Portsmouth's Guildhall Square will today fly at half mast following terrorist bomb attacks in Brussels.

Many people are feared dead and many more were injured after terrorist bomb attacks on the main airport and Metro system in Brussels.

The coordinated attacks came as the Belgian capital was on a high level of alert following the arrest of Paris atrocity suspect Salah Abdeslam in the city last week.

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Councillor Donna Jones, leader of Portsmouth City Council, said: ‘The terrorist attakcs in Brussels today are yet another shock and wake up call to the Western world that the threat from terrorism is not going away.

Picture: Jef Versele via FacebookPicture: Jef Versele via Facebook
Picture: Jef Versele via Facebook

‘The UK is on its highest security alert it can be unless we’re under threat of imminent attack.

‘Portsmouth is a military city and has been extremely vigilant for a number of years because of the escalating situation around the world.

‘My thoughts are with the families of those killed in today’s atrocity.’