The two suicide bombers who carried out the attacks in Brussels airport on Tuesday were brothers Khalid and Brahim El Bakraoui Brussels residents known to the police for crime the RTBF public broadcaster said quoting an unnamed source.
Khalid under a false name had rented the flat in the Forest borough of the Belgian capital where police killed a gunman in a raid last week RTBF said.
Investigators found after that raid an Islamic State flag an assault rifle detonators and a fingerprint of Paris attacks prime suspect Salah Abdeslam who was arrested three days later.
Both brothers have a criminal records but have not been linked by the police to terrorism until now RTBF said.
Meanwhile Belgian police issued an appeal Wednesday for information about the two suspects believed to have blown themselves up at Brussels airport in an attack claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group.
The police posted several tweets with the caption “Terrorism: who knows this man?” showing close-ups from closed circuit television of two men pushing trolleys with suitcases on them through the airport departure hall.
They gave three slightly different images for each man who the federal prosecutor said Tuesday had likely blown themselves up in the attack.
A third man dressed in a light coloured jacket and wearing a dark hat who was shown with the two others in a CCTV grab issued Tuesday is believed to have fled the scene and is now the subject of a massive manhunt.
The death toll in the airport blast and another on the Brussels metro system shortly afterwards was put at more than 30 dead but officials said Wednesday they still could not give a final figure.”We do not have a definitive total; for the moment it remains at what we get gave yesterday some 30 dead and about 250 injured” a spokesman for the anti-terror Crisis Centre said.
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