Mother ripped from children

Adelma Marina Tapia Ruiz was moments away from boarding a plane to New York, where she and her family were looking forward to reuniting for Easter.

Her husband and 3-year-old twin girls had just stepped away from the boarding area at Brussels' international airport. That's when an explosion ripped the family apart, Peruvian state media said.

Ruiz, a Peruvian national living in Brussels, was killed in the blast, the Andina news agency reported. Her husband and daughters escaped serious injury.

The 36-year-old mother was one of at least 10 people killed in the blasts at the airport. About an hour later, 20 people were killed at a Brussels metro station.

"We were fearing terrorist attacks," Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said. "And that has now happened."