'˜LATE TRAIN SAVED US FROM bomb carnage'

A local man has told how he and a group of young people missed the terror attack in Brussels by minutes - because of a late train.

By The Newsroom

Published 29th Mar 2016, 11:28 BST

Updated 2nd Apr 2016, 04:59 BST

Picture taken with permission from the Facebook site of Jef Versele showing the aftermath of this morning's explosions at Brussels airport

Youth worker James McCaughan, from Portrush, was in the Belgian capital with 18 local teenagers, who were on a European trip as part of Youth Council acitvities.

They arrived five minutes later than scheduled at Zaventem International Airport and were about to go in to catch their flight home when the explosions happened.

James said they initially thought a fire was to blame for the panic.

“We didn’t realise what had happened,” he said in an interview with BBC Radio. We were

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