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Najim Laachraoui confirmed as 2nd airport bomber, linked to Paris

Published: 25 Mar 2016 - 06:35 pm | Last Updated: 01 Nov 2021 - 06:12 am
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Police use a robotic device as they take part in a search in the Brussels borough of Schaerbeek following Tuesday's bombings in Brussels, Belgium, March 24, 2016. REUTERS/Christian Hartmann

 

Brussels: Belgium's federal prosecutor confirmed Friday that Najim Laachraoui was one of the two suicide bombers who struck Brussels airport this week in a series of attacks which left 31 people dead.

A statement from the prosecutor's office also linked Laachraoui to November's Paris carnage in which 130 people died, saying his DNA was found on a suicide vest and a piece of cloth discovered at the Bataclan, the concert hall where 90 people were killed.

Police also found his DNA on a bomb at the Stade de France.

AFP