Brussels bombers: (Pictured left to right) Brothers Khalid El Bakraoui and Ibrahim El Bakraoui have been named as the airport suicide bombers and explosives expert Najim Laachraoui is the third man - who has been arrested.
Anderlecht, Belgian, (IINA) - Brussels bombmaker Najim Laachraoui, known as the 'Man in white,' has been arrested just hours after he was named as the world's most wanted man, Mail Online news reported.
ISIS explosives expert Laachraoui has been taken alive by a Belgian SWAT team in the Anderlecht suburb of the Belgian capital hours after police said he helped carry out the attacks that killed 34 and injured 250 yesterday.
Belgian brothers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui were today named as two of the ISIS suicide bombers but in a new twist speculation intensified today that there was mystery about the identity of the fourth bomber.
Laachraoui is suspected of rigging up the suicide vests that helped kill 34 in twin attacks on Tuesday and is believed to have done the same for the Paris terrorists who murdered 130 in November.
He went on the run after leaving a suitcase packed with explosives and calmly walking from the terminal moments before the massacre at 8am.
Just 79 minutes later a suicide bomber detonated his vest on a Brussels Metro train at Maalbeek station killing 20 people. It is not known if he raced across the city to blow himself up.
Today it emerged there could have been a fourth airport bomb but the ISIS fanatics couldn’t fit all their explosive-packed suitcases into the taxi and refused to let the driver touch them so left one behind at their safehouse.
The taxi driver who drove the bombers to the airport led police to their hideout after the men refused to let him touch their luggage. After the explosions he contacted the authorities.
Armed police in vans and helicopters then flooded in the district of Shaerbeek, north-east Brussels and a nail bomb, chemicals and an ISIS flag in a flat.
The disturbing discoveries were made as officers searched properties in the district of Shaerbeek, north-east Brussels, where two Paris suspects are believed to have lived in the wake of the attacks.
Forensic teams later used laser lights to search for clues and left the heavily guarded premises with evidence bags.
All of the men were 'well known' to detectives and had been on the run since Tuesday March 15 following a shoot-out in a terrorist hideout in the Belgian capital's Forest suburb. They opened fire on police and fled.
Laachraoui was already one of the world's most wanted men, and went on the run with Salah Abdessalam, one of the Paris massacre masterminds, before hiding in Brussels for four months.
Belgium started three days of mourning today after the worst terror attacks in its history claimed the lives of 34 and left more than 250 injured in 79 minutes of rush hour carnage. The dead and injured have 40 different nationalities, and contains two Britons.
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