Belgium Lowers Alert Level After Attacks

Belgium's terror watch status has been lowered from the highest to the second highest level, the country's authorities have confirmed.

It comes just two days after the suicide bomb attacks at Zaventem Airport and Maalbeek station in Brussels which have left 31 people dead and 270 injured.

Despite lowering the terror threat level from the maximum of four to three, the authorities say the situation is "exceptional" and "grave" and that another attack is "likely and possible."

The head of the terror threat assessment authority, Paul Zan Pigchelt, said the imminent nature of the threat has lessened since the attacks on Tuesday.

Nonetheless, he said "the danger has not gone away."

least one person believed to be directly involved in the blasts is thought to be on the run, while the men who committed the atrocities are known to have been linked to a wider terror network.

Two of the bombers have been identified as brothers Khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui. and a third as Najim Laachraoui, who made the bombs used in the Paris attacks last November.