ROME (Sputnik) — All the Italian airports increased security after the explosions in a Brussels airport and metro, a source at the Italian Interior Ministry told RIA Novosti on Tuesday.
All flights between Italy and Brussels has been canceled.
Earlier in the day, media reported that the Rome Fiumicino Airport stepped up security right after the explosions in Brussels.
A series of blasts hit the Belgian capital earlier in the day, including two explosions in the Brussels Zaventem airport that left 13 people killed and 35 injured. Fifteen people were reportedly killed and at least 15 injured in explosions at the Maalbeek metro station in central Brussels.