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Four attackers carried out Brussels blast; two identified as brothers, one on the run

Published Wed, Mar 23, 2016 · 09:50 PM
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Belgian prosecutors said on Wednesday that two brothers carried out suicide attacks at Brussels airport and on a metro train, with one of them leaving a desperate will in a trash can saying that he did not know what to do any more.

Ibrahim El Bakraoui blew himself up in the check-in hall of Zaventem airport while Khalid El Bakraoui was responsible for the suicide attack at a metro train at Maalbeek station near the EU headquarters, federal prosecutor Frederic van Leeuw told a news conference. An unidentified suicide bomber and a man was filmed with Ibrahim. That man fled the scene without detonating his device and remains on the run, prosecutors said.

"The man is on the run; he left his bag with the biggest bomb in it, which exploded later because it was so unstable. This person remains unidentified and is still bei…

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