This report has turned out to be false. Police reveal ‘the man in white’ is STILL on run
Brussels fugitive Najim Laachraou – a terrorist known as the ‘man in white’ – has been arrested in a suburb of the Belgian capital, it has been claimed today. Laachraoui is a master bombmaker suspected of rigging up the suicide vests that helped kill 34 in twin attacks yesterday.
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.
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 maimed 250 yesterday.
Belgian brothers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui were also named as two of the ISIS suicide bombers – eight days after they escaped police in a gunfight – but in new twist there is speculation there was mystery fourth bomber.
Laachraoui is suspected of rigging up the suicide vests that helped kill 34 in twin attacks yesterday – 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 Maelbeek 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.
Laachraoui was already one of the world’s most wanted men, having built the suicide vests that helped kill 130 in Paris last November and went on the run with Salah Abdeslam, one of the Paris massacre masterminds, before hiding in Brussels for four months.