Calls for prayer as bombs kill "at least 31"

Christians across Brussels have called for prayer after bomb attacks which have left at least 31 people dead.

Many more people were injured after terrorist explosions on the main airport and Metro system in the Belgian capital.

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

There were unconfirmed reports of shots being fired and shouting in Arabic at the airport in what Belgian media said was a suicide attack.

At least one explosion hit the Metro system near a station close to European Union buildings.

On the Metro, traveller Evan Lamos tweeted a picture of passengers climbing from his train into the tunnel, saying: "Weare being evacuated from the back of the Metro, between Schuman and Maelbeek.

"Smoke in the tunnel as we evacuate."

Bishop Athenagoras Peckstadt, chaplain at Brussels Airport, told Premier: "I knew very soon after the first explosion that something had happened.

"I tried to go to the airport but they told us no can enter into the airport. The atmosphere in Belgium is very bad. More people tried to call me to ask if I'm OK. So, all the people live with this very bad moment."

Responding to events in Brussels this morning, the Archbishop of Canterbury said: "In the great Holy Week of Christian prayer and mercy, the Brussels attacks shock all those who seek peace and justice through the terrible cruelty and utter separation from all that is of God.

"Once