Netherlands boosts security after Brussels blasts

The Hague, March 22: Dutch counter-terrorism officials said today they were boosting security at national airports and tightening controls on the southern border with Belgium amid a series of blasts in Brussels.

"Out of precaution we are taking a number of additional measures in the Netherlands," the Dutch coordinator for terrorism and security said, adding there would be "extra police patrols at Schipol, Rotterdam and Eindhoven and border controls on the southern border".

IANS