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People light candles at a makeshift memorial at Brussels' Place de la Bourse.
People light candles at a makeshift memorial at Brussels' Place de la Bourse.

Live Blog: Brussels Attacks

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-- Belgian authorities have identified the bombers. Federal prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw has said that Ibrahim El Bakraoui blew himself up at the airport. His brother Khalid blew himself up in a subway car at Maalbeek station in central Brussels.

-- The two men shown pushing baggage carts with Ibrahim El Bakraoui in security-camera footage have yet to be identified.

-- Belgian media, which earlier reported the arrest of a prime suspect in the attacks, said the person detained was not, in fact, Najim Laachraoui.

-- Belgium is observing three days of mourning after bomb blasts in Brussels killed at least 34 people and wounded more than 200.

We are now closing the live blog. Our news desk will continue to provide you with updates on this story through the night.

Here's an intriguing item on the Brussels bombings from RFE/RL's Belarus Service:

Belarusian In Belgium Denies Russian Reports Suggesting Links To Attacks

A social-media photograph of Alyaksey Doubash (aka Khalid Doubash) whom Russian media outlets said was suspected of involvement in the Brussels bombings.
A social-media photograph of Alyaksey Doubash (aka Khalid Doubash) whom Russian media outlets said was suspected of involvement in the Brussels bombings.

At least two pro-Kremlin media outlets issued reports on March 22 claiming that three former residents of Belarus are suspected of involvement in the deadly attacks in Brussels.

But one of the men named in the stories published by LifeNews and Sputnik said the reports are false -- saying, among other things, that he and the other men could not have been suicide bombers because they are still alive.

The reports are the latest example of "yellow journalism and nonsensical efforts of miserable journalists" to "get their next little star," Ivan Doubash told RFE/RL. He said Belgian authorities have told the men they were unaware of any accusations against them.

Doubash and his brother Alyaksey -- who go by the first names Suleiman and Khalid -- are named as suspects in the Brussels attack in a Sputnik story that cites an unidentified "high-level employee of the Belarusian law enforcement organs."

Belarusian KGB spokesman Dzmitry Pabyarzhyn told RFE/RL that the security service is "aware of their existence," adding that their activities were being examined. The spokesman, however, refused to comment about whether they were suspects in the Brussels attacks.

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