Blazing car crashed into airport

Witnesses said a blazing Cherokee jeep containing two Asian-looking men crashed into the doors of the terminal building.

A man with his clothes on fire got out of the vehicle and was restrained by passengers. The flames were put out with a fire extinguisher.

Passengers were cleared from the terminal building amid fears that it was a terrorist attack.

BBC News executive Helen Boaden, at the airport, said she had spoken to a man who claimed to have witnessed what happened.

"What he says he saw is a Cherokee jeep drive into the glass frontage of the airport," she told BBC News 24. "A man got out of it on fire - he said there were actually two Asian-looking men but this guy was the one that was on fire.

"Some holidaymaker tried to restrain him, then the police came over and wrestled him to the ground - the fire was burning through his clothes - and finally put him out with a fire extinguisher."

Eye witness Fiona Tracey said there were injuries in the incident. "There were people injured, because I've seen them lying on the road," she told Sky News.

Another eyewitness, taxi driver Ian Crosby, said he was in no doubt that it was a terrorist attack.

"It looks to me like these people were intent on doing some serious damage," he told the BBC. "There was smoke coming from inside of the back seats. Immediately I realised this was a terrorist attack. Somebody had planned this. This was no accident."