Shocking footage has emerged of a Muslim woman being mown down by a car in a hit-and-run in the Brussels district of Molenbeek.

Video footage of the incident shows the white Audi A1, which had ploughed through a police road block, driving head-on into the woman as she crossed the road.

The woman was thrown off the car's bonnet and skidded along the road, while the driver continued moving forward and appeared to run over her legs.

The passenger even appears to lean out of the window to film the incident after breaking through the police barricade.

Video footage of the incident shows the car, which had ploughed through a police road block, driving head-on into the woman as she crossed the road

The woman was thrown off the car's bonnet and skidded along the road, while the driver continued moving forward and appeared to run over her legs

Although seriously injured, the woman appeared to be conscious to receive treatment at the scene of the crash.

Police later announced that they had arrested two men, believed to have been the car's driver and passenger, who have been named as Redouane B. and Mohamed B - both of whom are thought to be residents of Molenbeek.

It came as tensions escalated in the Belgian capital, with police out in force to ward off trouble after local authorities banned the scheduled anti-Islam rally and any counter-protests.

Several hundred people attempted to gather in defiance of the ban in the troubled neighbourhood of Molenbeek, which has become known as the 'jihadi capital of Europe' after it emerged that a number of the Brussels and Paris terror attackers had connections with the district.

Meanwhile smaller far-left groups were dispersed from a central Brussels square that has become a memorial to the victims of the airport and metro attacks of March 22.

Police said they briefly detained over 100 people in clashes between locals and demonstrators but only two were kept in custody, as calm returned to the district this evening.

Authorities were determined to prevent a repeat of last weekend, when riot police fired water cannon to disperse far-right football hooligans who disrupted mourners at the makeshift shrine to the attack victims.

Although seriously injured, the woman appeared to be conscious to receive treatment at the scene of the crash

Police haven't yet confirmed the woman's current condition, or the motivation behind the crash in Brussels

Police surround the white Audi A1, which had previously ploughed through a police barricade as far-right activists attempted to gather in the troubled district of Molenbeek for an anti-Islam rally

The sole surviving Paris suspect, Salah Abdeslam, was arrested in Molenbeek on March 18, after four months on the run as Europe's most wanted man.

He denies having any prior knowledge of the Brussels attacks.

It comes as authorities announced that Brussels' Zaventem airport will partially reopen on Sunday, just 12 days after it was hit by twin ISIS suicide blasts.

The first three 'symbolic flights' will take off for Faro, Turin and Athens from Sunday afternoon, Brussels Airport chief executive Arnaud Feist told reporters, and travellers will have to undergo strict new security controls before check-in.

'These flights are the first hopeful sign from an airport that is standing up straight after a cowardly attack,' Mr Feist said.

Passengers will have to make use of a temporary check-in facility as the airport's departure hall was wrecked in the March 22 blasts that also struck a metro station in Brussels, killing 32 people.

The passenger even appears to lean out of the window to take a photo after breaking through the police barricade

It came as tensions escalated in the Belgian capital, with police out in force to ward off trouble after local authorities banned the scheduled anti-Islam rally and any counter-protests

Belgian police point their guns at a car driving towards a police road block, just moments before it hit and injured a woman on the street in the Brussels district of Molenbeek

The attacks came just four days after Belgium arrested the prime suspect in last November's Paris terror assaults and close links have emerged between the attack cells.

European authorities, under pressure to crack down on a tangled web of cross-border jihadist cells, have carried out a number of raids and arrests since then, several of them linked to a foiled plot to attack France.

In the latest development, Belgian prosecutors today charged a third suspect with 'participation in the activities of a terrorist group' over the France plot.

The man was named only as 35-year-old Y.A., who was arrested in the centre of Brussels on Friday.

The main plot suspect is French national Reda Kriket, who was arrested in France last week after police found an arsenal of weapons and explosives at his home near Paris.

The headline to a previous version of this article referred to a "far-right activist". The police later confirmed that two men had been arrested, and the story has been updated accordingly.

Soldiers patrol during tensions between police and residents, in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek, Belgium

Belgium policemen arrest protestors at the Bourse Memorial for victims of the Brussels terrorist attack

A far right-wing demonstration was cancelled by Brussels Mayor before taking place in Molenbeek

The sole surviving Paris suspect, Salah Abdeslam, was arrested in Molenbeek on March 18, after four months on the run as Europe's most wanted man. Pictured, Belgium policemen arrest protestors at the Bourse Memorial for victims of the terrorist attack

Mounted Belgian police take position near colleagues in riot gear in the Brussels district of Molenbeek

In the latest development, Belgian prosecutors today charged a third suspect with 'participation in the activities of a terrorist group' over the France plot. Pictured, a masked youth taunts Belgian police

It comes as authorities announced that Brussels' Zaventem airport will partially reopen on Sunday, just 12 days after it was hit by twin ISIS suicide blasts