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| Khalid and Brahim el-Bakraoui named as suicide bombers behind Brussels Airport attacks | |
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| Two brothers have been named by local media as the suicide bombers behind the Brussels Airport attacks that killed at least 11 people and injured up to 100. | Two brothers have been named by local media as the suicide bombers behind the Brussels Airport attacks that killed at least 11 people and injured up to 100. |
| Belgium’s state broadcaster RTBF has named Khalid and Ibrahim, also known as Brahim, el-Bakraoui as the two men who detonated suitcase bombs, killing themselves and several others, at Zaventem airport. | |
| An alert was put out for the pair following a police raid in the Brussels suburb of Forest last week where two men escaped as an Isis militant battled with officers before being shot dead. | |
| Belgian's federal prosecutor named the el-Bakraoui brothers as the hunt continued after police lost them in a chase over rooftops. | |
| A Kalashnikov, book about Salafism and Isis flag was found in the flat alongside a large quantity of ammunition. | |
| Khalid was wanted on suspicion of terror offences, Belgian media reported, and was previously jailed for nine years after shooting at police during a robbery. | |
| His brother was imprisoned in 2011, a year later, for car-jackings, La Libre reported. | |
| The two men, aged 27 and 30, are believed to be the two suicide bombers who detonated their vests inside Brussels Airport's busy departures terminal on Tuesday morning. | |
| Police are still hunting a third suspected accomplice pictured with them on CCTV, named by La Derniere Heure newspaper as Najim Laachraoui. | |
| The airport explosions, followed little over an hour later by another blast at a Metro station, left at least 31 dead and 250 wounded. | |
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