As it entered a second day of mourning, Belgium held a minute’s silence in memory of the victims, while Downing Street said it was concerned about a missing British national.
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The daily also said Daesh claimed responsibility for the Brussels attack late Tuesday.
The president’s office confirmed he was deported to the Netherlands and it said he was later released by Belgian authorities as “no links with terrorism” were found. It was raided December 9.
Both the Kouachi brothers were gunned down in a siege that was laucnhed after the attack.
That appeared to be a reference to Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam, who is reportedly linked to Bakraoui, and who is in custody in Belgium after being captured last week. RTBF said it is not clear whether that man was killed in the attack.
Prosecutors, who have not said how many people overall may have taken part in the bombings, did not respond to the reports. Najim Laachraoui, an ISIS bomb-maker, is the man on the left in the picture, a Belgian counterterrorism official told CNN’s Paul Cruickshank.
Two other attackers, pictured next to Brahim, on CCTV from Zaventem Airport, have not yet been identified.
Investigators have found traces of his DNA on explosives used in the Paris bomb and gun assaults, including at the Bataclan rock venue where 80 people died.
He’s reportedly already back at work, as the Belgian public transport system gradually gets back toward normal following Tuesday’s deadly attacks at the Maelbeek station and Brussels airport.
The Paris attackers were mainly French and Belgian citizens of North African descent, some from uthat struggle with discrimination, unemployment and alienation.
U.S. authorities know the identity of the third Brussels airport bomber who is believed to be on the run, Sky News has learned.
The third man has still not been identified.
The airport and all the metro stations remained closed on Wednesday and security threat level was raised to the highest after the attacks.
The denial by Salah Abdeslam comes amid mounting evidence of strong links between the extremists that carried out the Brussels bombings and those behind the atrocities in the French capital last November.
He added: “The atrocious attacks in Brussels obviously show terrorism can not be a fight for freedom and we should fight against all types of terrorism together”. “So there are two individuals, at least, with direct involvement in these attacks”.
“The country is bitterly divided between French-speaking Wallonia and Dutch-speaking Flanders”. And past year, Sheheryar Alam Qazi and Raees Alam Qazi, two South Florida brothers who were born in Pakistan, were convicted of plotting to use weapons of mass destruction on New York City landmarks. Hundreds have been gathering at a makeshift memorial in front of Brussels’ historic stock exchange.
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Belgians paid homage and lit candles, the mood nearly buoyant as people wrote on the ground with big sticks of chalk, drawing peace signs and hearts. We will update as the situation develops.
