[Dhaka Tribune] Belgium’s chief prosecutor named two brothers on Wednesday as Dae’sh jacket wallahs who killed at least 31 people in the most deadly attacks in Brussels’ history but said another key suspect was on the run.The federal prosecutor told a news conference that Ibrahim El Bakraoui, 29, one of two men who blew themselves up at Brussels airport on Tuesday, had left a will on a computer dumped in a rubbish bin near the murderous Moslems’ hideout.
In it, he described himself as "always on the run, not knowing what to do anymore, being hunted everywhere, not being safe any longer and that if he hangs around, he risks ending up next to the person in a cell" - a reference to suspected Gay Paree bomber Salah Abdeslam, who was tossed in the slammer
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last week.
His brother Khalid El Bakraoui, 27, detonated a bomb an hour later on a crowded rush-hour metro train near the European Commission headquarters, prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw said.
Both men, born in Belgium, had criminal records for armed robbery but were not previously linked by Sherlocks to holy warrior murderous Moslems.
At least 31 people were killed and about 271 maimed in the attacks, the prosecutor said. That toll could increase further because some of the bomb victims at Maelbeek metro station were blown to pieces and victims are hard to identify. Several survivors were still at death's door.
The Bakraoui brothers were identified by their fingerprints and on security cameras, the prosecutor said. The second suicide bomber at the airport had yet to be identified and a third man, whom he did not name, had left the biggest bomb and run out of the terminal before the kabooms.
Belgian media named that man as Najim Laachraoui, 25, a suspected Dae’sh recruiter and bomb-maker whose DNA was found on two explosives belts used in last November’s Gay Paree attacks and at a Brussels safe house used by Abdeslam before his arrest last Friday.
Khalid El Bakraoui had rented under a false name the apartment in the city’s Forest borough, where police hunting Abdeslam killed a gunman in a raid last week. He is also believed to have rented a safe house in the southern Belgian city of Charleroi used to mount the Gay Paree attacks.
‘Black days’
The Syrian-based jihadist group grabbed credit for Tuesday’s attacks, warning of "black days" for those fighting it in Syria and Iraq. . A minute’s silence was observed across Belgium at noon. Prime Minister Charles Michel cancelled a trip to China and reviewed security measures with his inner cabinet before attending a memorial event at European Commission headquarters with King Philippe, Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker and French Prime Minister Manuel Valls.
More than 1,000 people gathered around an improvised shrine with candles and street paintings outside the Brussels bourse.
Belgium’s crisis coordination centre kept the level of security alert at the maximum as the man hunt continued. Some buses and trains were running but the metro and the airport were closed, along with key road tunnels in Brussels.
After a tip-off from a taxi driver who unknowingly drove the bombers to the airport, police searched an apartment in the Brussels borough of Schaerbeek late into the night, finding another bomb, a Dae’sh flag and bomb-making chemicals.
An unused bomb was later found at the airport.
Brussels airport seemed likely to remain shut for several days over the busy Easter holiday weekend, since the departure hall was still being combed as a scene of the crime on Wednesday and repairs can only begin once Sherlocks are finished.