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The two men who blew themselves
up at Brussels airport on Tuesday were brothers known to the police and a third
attacker, who is at large, is a known Paris attacks suspect, Belgian media said
on Wednesday.
The suicide bombers were named
as Khalid and Brahim El Bakraoui and the third man as Najim Laachraoui. Federal prosecutors declined to
comment, but said they would provide information in the course of the morning.
Laachraoui's DNA had been found
in houses used by the Paris attackers last year, prosecutors said on Monday,
adding that he had traveled to Hungary in September with Paris attacks prime
suspect Salah Abdeslam.
Captured on a security camera
photograph at Brussels Airport on Tuesday morning beside the El Bakraoui
brothers, Laachraoui did not detonate a bomb and is still at large. A bomb was
subsequently destroyed in a controlled explosion.
Khalid El Bakraoui, 27, had
rented under a false name the flat in the Forest borough of the Belgian capital
where police killed a gunman in a raid last week, RTBF said.
Belgian newspaper DH said the
Bakraoui brothers may have fled the flat in Forest after last week's shootout.
In the raid, investigators
found an Islamic State flag, an assault rifle, detonators and a fingerprint of
Abdeslam, who was arrested three days later. Both brothers have criminal
records, but have not been linked by the police to Islamist militants until
now, RTBF said.
Brahim El Bakraoui, 30, was
convicted in October 2010 for firing a Kalashnikov assault rifle at police and
wounding an officer after a robbery in Brussels earlier that year. He was
sentenced to nine years in prison. In 2011, his brother Khalid was given a
sentence of five years for carjacking.