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Wednesday, March 23, 2016
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Wednesday, March 23, 2016
2nd Brussels airport bomber identified as Najim Laachraoui
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleThe second suicide bomber who blew himself up at Brussels airport has been identified as Najim Laachraoui, police sources tell AFP.
Moroccan-born Laachraoui’s DNA was found on explosives used in the November 13 Paris attacks as well as at an apartment in Brussels where bomb-making equipment and a fingerprint from Salah Abdeslam — prime suspect in the Paris attacks — had been found in December.
The blasts in Brussels occurred four days after Abdeslam’s arrest.
Prosecutors have said Laachraoui “traveled to Syria in February 2013,” and was registered under a false name at the border between Austria and Hungary last September.
— AFP
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