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| Brussels Airport attackers ‘forced to leave bomb behind after taxi mix-up’ | |
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| A mix-up by a Brussels taxi dispatcher may have prevented more carnage at the city's airport on 22 March, Belgium's DH newspaper reported, saying the cab firm sent a smaller car to pick up the bombers than the one ordered. | A mix-up by a Brussels taxi dispatcher may have prevented more carnage at the city's airport on 22 March, Belgium's DH newspaper reported, saying the cab firm sent a smaller car to pick up the bombers than the one ordered. |
| Citing unidentified sources, DH said Ibrahim El Bakraoui and two other men suspected of carrying out the attack had called for a minivan to take them to Zaventem airport, laden with bags, early on Tuesday from an apartment in the north of the city. | Citing unidentified sources, DH said Ibrahim El Bakraoui and two other men suspected of carrying out the attack had called for a minivan to take them to Zaventem airport, laden with bags, early on Tuesday from an apartment in the north of the city. |
| When the driver turned up in a saloon, the three found they could not fit all four heavy holdalls into the trunk. They left one behind. | When the driver turned up in a saloon, the three found they could not fit all four heavy holdalls into the trunk. They left one behind. |
| Two men blew themselves up in the airport's departure hall and the third ran off, leaving the heaviest explosive device which security services later detonated. | Two men blew themselves up in the airport's departure hall and the third ran off, leaving the heaviest explosive device which security services later detonated. |
| After the taxi driver called police to relate the tale, they found a large nail bomb in the apartment in the borough of Schaerbeek and defused it. Police had no comment on the report. | After the taxi driver called police to relate the tale, they found a large nail bomb in the apartment in the borough of Schaerbeek and defused it. Police had no comment on the report. |
| "What would have happened if all the explosive devices found in the Schaerbeek search had been taken to Zaventem?" DH asked. | "What would have happened if all the explosive devices found in the Schaerbeek search had been taken to Zaventem?" DH asked. |
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