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Belgium stood still at noon to mark a minute's silence for the victims of the carnage, near the European Union's headquarters
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BRUSSELS: Authorities on Wednesday named two suicide bombers who struck Brussels as brothers linked to the prime suspect in the Paris attacks, as a manhunt for a third assailant in Belgium's bloodiest terror assault gathered pace.
Belgium's federal prosecutor named Ibrahim El Bakraoui as one of two men who blew themselves up at Brussels airport on Tuesday, while his brother Khalid struck a crowded metro train in coordinated blasts that left 31 dead and 270 injured.
“The third man is on the run,” prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw said of a man seen on CCTV pushing a trolley through Zaventem Airport alongside the two suicide bombers, shortly before the attacks claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group.
“He left his bag with the biggest bomb in it which exploded later because it was so unstable,” Van Leeuw told a press conference, adding that police had found a massive stash of explosives in a Brussels apartment.
Belgian investigators have unleashed a dragnet, releasing CCTV images of the three airport attackers -- with the second suicide bomber and the third man, on the run, still unidentified.
Belgium stood still at noon to mark a minute's silence for the victims of the carnage that left bodies strewn across the airport's departures hall and a train at Maalbeek station, near the European Union's headquarters.
Police had already been hunting the Bakraoui brothers, both Belgian nationals, over their links to Salah Abdeslam, the key suspect in the Paris attacks that left 130 people dead, who was arrested in Brussels on Friday after four months on the run.
