BRUSSELS: A prime suspect in Tuesday's Brussels bombings, Najim Laachraoui, was arrested on Wednesday in the city's Anderlecht district, several Belgian media said.
Police and prosecutors could not be reached for comment, but federal prosecutors announced they would hold a news conference at 1200 GMT.
Police were hunting Laachraoui, 25, as being a man seen with suspected suicide bombers at Brussels airport.
Laachraoui's DNA has been found in houses used by the Paris attackers last year, prosecutors said on Monday, and he had traveled to Hungary in September with Paris attacks prime suspect Salah Abdeslam.
Suicide bombers were brothers
Earlier, the RTBF public broadcaster, quoting an unnamed source said the two suicide bombers who carried out the attacks at the Brussels airport on Tuesday were brothers Khalid and Brahim El Bakraoui – Brussels residents known to the police for crime.
Khalid, under a false name, had rented the flat in the Forest borough of the Belgian capital where police killed a gunman in a raid last week, RTBF said.
Investigators found after that raid a Deash (Islamic State) flag, an assault rifle, detonators and a fingerprint of Salah Abdeslam, who was arrested three days later.
Both brothers have criminal records, but have not been linked by the police to terrorism until now, RTBF said.
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