Emergency services in Brussels were forced to use WhatsApp when communication systems were overwhelmed with traffic after suicide bombers attacked the city’s airport and a metro station, officials say.  Catherine De Bolle, the general commissioner of Belgium’s Federal Police, has requested a probe into the communication problems that hampered emergency services on Tuesday, according to Belgian news reports.  

“It was a helpless situation. Orders were not received and no one knew what was being done. The mobile network was down too,” one police officer told Nieuwsblad. “Fortunately, WhatsApp was still working. Without the app we wouldn’t have been able to communicate at all.”  Read article here: http://bnonews.com/news/index.php/news/id3969