One of the two, an employee at the Hungarian EU representation in Brussels, was at the Maelbeek metro station when a bomb went off there, and had to be operated on due to internal bleeding before his condition was stabilised.

The other Hungarian injured, an employee of a local firm, underwent surgery on a broken bone suffered in the explosion at Brussels Zaventem airport.

Szijjártó said 18 members of a government delegation had their trips to Belgium cancelled.

LMP co-president András Schiffer arrived at Zaventem airport just as the explosions occurred. He said arriving passengers had to wait in a security zone after landing and were driven away from the airport in buses with a police escort.

Szijjártó said the answer to the series of attacks in Paris, Turkey and Brussels is not that “we should open our doors even wider” but that “we must protect ourselves” and abandon the “harebrained policy” which allows people to enter Europe unchecked.

Source: Hungary Around the Clock

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