Anna Benson and her partner were heading home from Barcelona, but were stranded in Brussels because of the air strike in France. This morning they would take the flight home to Sweden and was just about at the terminal when it blew up.
– When the roof collapsed. The template above us, in the terminal above. People screamed and airport staff shouting “evacuate, evacuate.”
Full throttle
Anna and Susanne took themselves out of the terminal and ended up in the middle of an extensive rescue work.
– it was full throttle and 50 each of the police cars, fire trucks and ambulances. Then came a caravan of rescue personnel who carried out the people on stretchers. Many were already dead.
– There were also many around who was full of blood in different places, who screamed in pain and cried. But the staff had to care for and save the lives of those who did, says Anna.
Took into town
Anna and Susanne just wanted to get from the site and got a lift with some construction workers into the city.
– We thought about taking the train. But in the meantime, we sat in the car slammed it even in the subway and train station shut. The next thought was to rent a car, but the car rental area were closed. In the end we managed to snag a taxi that drove us to Rotterdam.
“Screams, pain and chaos”
When we talk with Anna Benson late afternoon, she and Susanne just stepping on an airplane from Rotterdam to Sweden. And now all they have seen to land.
– I do not know how to describe it, I have never seen dead people before. One thinks that it could just as easily have been us. It’s about a minute maybe, and we are grateful that we are safe, she said.
– It’s horrible pictures you have seen, that sits on the retina: screams, pain and chaos.
Anna Benson grew up in the purple Siggesbo village just outside Torsås Kalmar County. She is an author and has written a cookbook with a focus on cancer.
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