Brussels Airport Bombers Were Brothers
TEHRAN (Tasnim) - The suicide bombers who carried out a deadly attack on Brussels airport on Tuesday were brothers and known to police, according to reports.
The pair have been named by Belgian media as Khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui, Sky News reported.
Although previously known to police this was for organized crime rather than terrorism.
Khalid had rented under a false identity the house raided by police last week, in an operation that later led to the arrest of Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam.
The details of the attackers came as a major manhunt continued for their accomplice, who went on the run apparently after his device failed to explode.
He has been named as Najim Laachraoui, who has been identified by French police as the chief bomb maker for the Paris attacks last November.
CCTV footage taken in the moments before the twin blasts at Zaventem Airport, which left at least 14 people dead, showed two of the three men wearing single gloves to conceal detonators.
More than 35 people have been confirmed to have died in the Brussels bombings on Tuesday.
Daesh (ISIL) terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the attacks on the airport and a busy metro station, and in a statement, the terror group warned of "dark days" ahead for the western nations against it.