Najim Laachraoui confirmed as 2nd airport bomber linked to Paris

3/26/2016 3:12:30 AM

(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Police use a robotic device as they take part in a search in theBrusselsborough of Schaerbeek following Tuesday's bombings inBrussels 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

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