Belgium attackers’ bombs were ‘in their bags’ — mayor

In this image provided by the Belgian Federal Police in Brussels on Tuesday, March 22, 2016 of three men who are suspected of taking part in the attacks at Belgium’s Zaventem Airport. The man at right is still being sought by the police and two others in the photo that the police issued were according to a the Belgian Prosecutors ‘probably’ suicide bombers. Bombs exploded at the Brussels airport and one of the city’s metro stations Tuesday, killing and wounding scores of people, as a European capital was again locked down amid heightened security threats. AP

BRUSSELS, Belgium — The suicide attackers who struck Brussels airport on Tuesday, killing at least 14 people, had their bombs in their luggage, the local mayor told AFP.

“They came in a taxi with their suitcases, their bombs were in their bags,” Zaventem mayor Francis Vermeiren said.

“They put their suitcases on trolleys, the first two bombs exploded. The third also put his on a trolley but he must have panicked, it didn’t explode,” he added.

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It was this case that bomb disposal experts blew up later, he added.

Vermeiren said of the airport attacks that “it was a war zone, atrocious to see, atrocious to live through. But strength and solidarity have won.”

Belgium’s federal prosecutor said earlier that there were two suicide bombers and they were “actively looking” for a third whose bomb did not go off.

Police issued a wanted notice for the suspect, along with a CCTV picture showing a bespectacled man with a goatee beard, wearing a white jacket and black hat, pushing a trolley with a large black bag.

Authorities earlier released a grainy picture of the same man alongside two men with dark hair in dark clothes who were also pushing trollies with similar bags.

Both of those men wore black gloves on their left hands.