Two of the suicide bombers who carried out attacks in Brussels on Tuesday have been named as brothers Khalid and Brahim el-Bakraoui, Belgian nationals, TASS informs.
Two of the suicide bombers who carried out attacks in Brussels on Tuesday have been named as brothers Khalid and Brahim el-Bakraoui, Belgian nationals, TASS informs.
Belgian federal prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw identified Ibrahim El Bakraoui as one of two suicide bombers at the Zaventem airport and his brother, Khalid El Bakraoui, as the man behind a deadly suicide blast about an hour later at Maelbeek metro station.
The New York Times writes the brothers — Ibrahim el-Bakraoui, 29, and Khalid el-Bakraoui, 27 — were Belgian and had criminal records, officials said. But the pair had no known links to terrorism until the authorities conducted a raid on March 15 on an apartment in the Forest district of Brussels, as part of their investigation into the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris.
Prosecutors inform Brahim left a note, that was found in a nearby rubbish bin. In it, he wrote of his desperation: "I'm in a hurry. I don't know what to do anymore, they're looking for me everywhere. I'm not safe anymore. If I give myself up they'll put me in a cell."
According to BBC, two other attackers at the airport have not yet been identified. One of them died, another is on the run.