Two brothers with suspected links to the November terrorist plotters in Paris were named by Belgian state media on Wednesday as the suicide bombers in Tuesday’s double bombing at Brussels airport.
Citing police intelligence, Belgian broadcaster RTBF identified the two men as Khalid and Brahim El Bakraoui. Khalid was reported to have rented a safe house in the Brussels district of Forest, which became the scene of a gun battle with police last week.
Khalid is also believed to be the man who rented a flat in the southern Belgian city of Charleroi used by the Paris conspirators in the weeks leading up to the November attacks, Belgian media reported.