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Belgium launches new appeal for information on "man in hat" suspect

Xinhua, April 7, 2016 Adjust font size:

Belgian federal prosecutor's office on Thursday launched a new appeal for information on "the man in the hat" suspect who was believed to have left a bomb in Brussels Airport on March 22.

A video released on the federal police's website showed the possible route that the man took out of the airport and into the city center. On surveillance cameras, the man was last seen on Avenue Brabanconne in Schaerbeek some two hours after the airport blast.

"The man in the hat" who appeared on airport surveillance footage images alongside two other suicide bombers has still not been identified.

The other two suicide bombers in the airport blast were identified by Belgian investigators as Najim Laachraoui and Ibrahim El Bakraoui. The latter's brother, Khalid El Bakraoui, was identified as the bomber of the Maelbeek metro station.

The March 22 suicide blast attacks on the Brussels airport and then the metro station close to European Union institutions in the city center killed 32 people, leaving hundreds injured. Enditem