Brussels attacks: Belgium publishes surveillance picture of three suspects

Brussels: Hours after the terror attacks which rocked the Belgian city of Brussels, Belgian police on Tuesday evening published the surveillance camera image of three suspects in the attack on Brussels airport in which at least 35 people were killed and 200 injured, Belga news agency reported.

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The grainy picture, which Belga said was released by Belgian police at the request of the federal prosecutor, shows three men pushing trolleys with suitcases past the check-in area. Two have dark hair and one is wearing a hat. In this regard, federal police in Belgium have issued a wanted notice for a suspect in the Brussels airport bombing that they are still trying to identify.

A man wearing a thick light-coloured jacket with a black hat and glasses is suspected of committing an attack at Zaventem airport on Tuesday morning. They are urging the public to call them if they recognise the man.

Belgian officials said there were two bomb blasts in the main airport hall on Tuesday morning, at least one of which was a suicide bombing. A third bomb that failed to explode was found later, a regional governor said.

"Three bombs were brought into the building, of which one failed to explode," Lodewijk De Witte, the governor of Flemish Brabant province, told a press conference at the airport. He said it was later destroyed in a controlled explosion.

The Islamic State group had claimed the responsibility for the attacks in Brussels, saying its extremists opened fire in the airport and "several of them" detonated suicide belts.

The posting in the group's Amaq news agency said another suicide attacker detonated in the metro. The posting claimed the attack was in response to Belgium's support of the international coalition arrayed against it.