Fugitive Brussels Suspect 'Is IS Bombmaker'

The fugitive suspect in the Brussels Airport attack is Najim Laachraoui, who has also been identified as an IS bombmaker.

The 24-year-old has been identified in Belgian media reports as the third man captured on CCTV at the airport, alongside two other bombers - brothers Khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui, both of whom killed themselves in the attacks.

Laachraoui is reported to have fled the airport after his bomb failed to detonate.

Following the Brussels attacks, a taxi driver told police he had picked up three suspicious customers - and took investigators to a house in the Brussels suburb of Schaerbeek, where he had collected them, according to Belgium's HLN newspaper.

The third airport attacks suspect has been named as Najim Laachraoui

It was in that house where police found a nail bomb, chemical products and an Islamic State flag - but no sign of Laachraoui, the fugitive in a hat who is now Belgium's most wanted man.

Laachraoui is also suspected of being responsible for the bombs used in the Paris massacres in November after his DNA was found on suicide belts used in the Bataclan Theatre and the Stade de France.

Prosecutors had said on Monday - the day before the Brussels attacks - that he had travelled to Hungary in September with Salah Abdeslam, the prime suspect in the Paris attacks, who was captured by police last week.

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