Brussels bomb suspect arrested: Belgian media

<br /> <div class="detail-img entry-box" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #606060; float: left; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 5px; width: 630px;"> <div class="entry-thumb" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 25px;"> <img alt="Brussels bomb suspect arrested: Belgian media" class="attachment-large wp-post-image" src="http://www.geo.tv/assets/uploads/updates/2016-03-23/l_102763_100634_updates.jpg" style="border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; height: auto; max-width: 100%; vertical-align: middle; width: 630px;" title="Brussels bomb suspect arrested: Belgian media" /></div> </div> <div class="post-138 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-nulla entry-box" id="post-138" style="background-color: white; box-sizing: border-box; color: #606060; font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 30px;"> <div class="entry-content entry-full-content clearfix" itemprop="text" style="box-sizing: border-box;"> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;"> </div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">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.</strong></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;"> Police and prosecutors could not be reached for comment, but federal prosecutors announced they would hold a news conference at 1200 GMT.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;"> Police were hunting Laachraoui, 25, as being a man seen with suspected suicide bombers at Brussels airport.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;"> 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.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;"> <span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-size: 14pt;"><strong style="box-sizing: border-box;">Suicide bombers were brothers</strong></span></div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;"> 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.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;"> 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.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;"> 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.</div> <div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 15px;"> Both brothers have criminal records, but have not been linked by the police to terrorism until now, RTBF said.</div> </div> </div>

Brussels bomb suspect arrested: Belgian media

BRUSSELS: A prime suspect in Tuesday's Brussels bombings, Najim Laachraoui, was arrested on Wednesday in the city's Anderl...

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