Brussels: Dramatic moment armed police arrest two men as city is put on lockdown

This is the moment two men were arrested as Brussels was put on lockdown following a deadly terror strike.

The photograph, posted on social media in the hours after the blasts, shows armed officers pinning two suspects to the ground in the square outside the Belgian capital’s North Metro station.

The stop is about two miles from the site of an explosion on the underground network in which 20 people were killed.

A further 14 died in two blasts an hour earlier at Brussels Airport at about 8am local time (7am GMT).

It is not known whether the arrests are linked to the terror strikes.

Brussels has been on high alert since the arrest of Paris terror attack suspect Salah Abdeslam last week.

Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel said “what we feared has happened" as people were warned not to venture outdoors unless they had to.

The attack also sent shockwaves across Europe, with international train services being stopped at borders and other countries ramping up security.

In the UK, police said extra officers were being mobilised to reassure the public, though force bosses stressed it was not in response to any specific threat.