Muslim Master Bombmaker of Brussels and Paris Attacks who POSED AS MIGRANT

Laachraoui is a master bombmaker suspected of rigging up the suicide vests used in the Paris massacres and has been found in the Anderlecht district of the city.

Belgian brothers Ibrahim and Khalid El Bakraoui were today named as the two airport ISIS suicide bombers who murdered 14 people – eight days after escaping a shoot-out with police in Brussels.

The jihadists were named as police linked the atrocities in the French capital that killed 130 and the bombings at Brussels Airport and a Metro station that left 34 dead yesterday.

Laachraoui 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 before hiding in Brussels for four months.

And one of the brothers, Khalid El Bakraoui, rented the apartment where Paris terror attacker Salah Abdeslam was captured by anti-terror police last Friday, according to respected Belgium news organisation RTL.

Yesterday’s twin terror attacks on the Belgian capital that left at least 34 people dead are believed to have been revenge for Abdeslam’s capture – experts believe the jihadists launched the Brussels attacks because the net was closing in on their terror cell.

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.

Yet they still managed to find another address to stay, where they stored the explosives and guns used in Tuesday’s attacks.

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 – still on on the run

 First picture: Belgian brothers Khalid El Bakraoui, left, Ibrahim El Bakraoui, centre, have been named by the Belgian media as the two airport suicide bombers – their accomplice the ‘Man in White’ Laachraoui, right, remains at large having walked out of the airport

Najim Laachraoui, left, one of the suspects of the Paris terrorist attacks, is believed to be the man in white on the run – and is a close associate of Salah Abdeslam, right, who was arrested on Friday – an act said to have sparked yesterday’s bombing by his terror cell

  Panic: A fire caused by one of the explosions in the terminal is tackled by airport staff with extinguishers surrounded by baggage and falling roof tile

Obliterated: Ceiling tiles and debris are littered across the floor of the terminal building after twins blast rocked the check-in are

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.

Mother-of-two Adelma Tapia Ruiz, 36, is the only named victim of the Brussels terror attacks so far. The Peruvian national had lived in Belgium for nine years, was on her the way to visit relatives in New York with her twin daughters when she died in the double suicide bombing at Zaventem Airport.

Ms Tapia’s three-year-old twins Maureen and Alondra, and her Belgian husband Christopher Delcambe, survived the explosion on Tuesday morning.

The girlfriend of a British father missing after the Brussels attacks is among desperate relatives searching the city’s hospitals in the hope of finding their loved ones.

David Dixon has not been in contact with his partner, Charlotte Sutcliffe, since the bombs went off and may have been on the Brussels Metro at the time of Tuesday’s explosion at the Maalbeck underground station.

The IT programmer, who lives in Brussels but is originally from Hartlepool, County Durham, was travelling to work yesterday morning but did not arrive at his office.

The 53-year-old would have travelled through Maelbeek station, where the attack happened.

Friends have been appealing for information on his whereabouts on social media and asking anyone with information to contact his Ms Sutcliffe.

American siblings Sascha and Alexander Pinczowski were at Brussels Airport at the time of the two explosions inside a terminal and have not been seen or heard from since the incidents.

According to Dutch media reports, the pair were on the phone to their family when the blasts took place and then the line went dead.

The Pinczowskis, both from New York, were at Brussels Airport at the time of the two explosions inside a terminal and have not been seen or heard from since the incidents.

Police have confirmed that those who carried it out have links to the cell who carried out the Paris attacks four months ago.

Today it emerged that the El Bakraoui brothers fled a Brussels police raid last week where snipers shot and killed Paris bombing suspect Mohamed Belkaid, it emerged today.

The raid carried out last Tuesday on a flat in the suburb of Forest saw a sniper kill Belkaid while the El Bakraoui brothers managed to escape police.

Police were acting on a tip-off in connection to the Paris terror attacks, and carried out the raid in Forest, which is close to Molenbeek, where several jihadis behind the Paris attacks lived.

While there was initial speculation that the raid had aimed to capture Paris-terrorist Salah Abdeslam, who was arrested later in the week in a separate operation, this was later denied by a police spokesman.

Victim: Adelma Tapia Ruiz, 36, died in the terrorist attack in Brussels on Tuesday, while her three-year-old twins Maureen and Alondra, and her Belgian husband Christopher Delcambe, survived

David Dixon, from Hartlepool, has not been in contact with his partner Charlotte Louise Sutcliffe since leaving for work yesterday

 New York siblings Sascha (pictured)  and Alexander Pinczowski (right)  were at Brussels Airport at the time of the two explosions inside a terminal – they haven’t been seen since

Belkaid, an Algerian national who was illegally in Belgium, was found with an ISIS flag, AK-47 assault rifle and a book of jihadist literature next to his body.

At the time police said: ‘two persons [the El Bakraoui brothers] who were probably in the flat fled the scene and are being tracked down’.

Less than one week later, Khalid and Brahim El Bakraoui carried out the terrorist attack at Brussels airport and as passengers queued to check in for flights at around 8am local time (7am GMT) the first blast rang out.

People fled towards the entrance of Brussels Zaventem Airport, a second much bigger blast in front of them brought down much of the ceiling and sent razor-sharp shrapnel, body parts and clouds of thick dust and smoke billowing through the building.

According to Belgian news website 7sur7, Ibrahim was sentenced to nine years in prison in 2010 for firing at police with an AK-47 assault rifle during a robbery.

Khalid was also given a five-year jail term in early 2011 for possessing AK-47s and committing a series of car-jackings, it was reported. It is not clear when they were released from prison.

Their use of Kalashnikovs, a signature weapon for ISIS and other extremist groups, will raise questions about why they were not monitored more closely by security services.

Belgian terror expert Pieter Van Ostaeyen says French prosecutor indicating that Abdeslam had started talking to police may have triggered the attack.s

‘The three terrorists thought their network would be exposed and carried out their terror plan before this happened as a pre-emptive move,’ he told Aftonbladet.

‘It happened today [Tuesday], maybe weeks or months before the planned date.

‘The French prosecutor should not have talked so much. He sent out the wrong signals to the ISIS network still intact in Europe, so it was high time for them to act and that’s exactly what happened.

‘The Belgian police investigation was leaking, and that’s why it happened now,’ he adds.

Belgian intelligence services are already under intense pressure to explain a number of failures that have allowed members of the ISIS cell to operate under their noses in the capital.