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Bomb suspect arrested

Brussels bomb suspect arrested
Brussels bomb suspect arrested
Police were hunting him as a man seen with suspected suicide bombers at Brussels airport.
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A prime suspect in Tuesday's Brussels bombings, Najim Laachraoui, was arrested on Wednesday in the city's Anderlecht district, Belgian newspaper DH said on its website.

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Security experts believed the blasts, which killed about 20 on a metro train running through the area that houses European Union institutions, were probably in preparation before Friday's arrest of locally based French national Salah Abdeslam, 26, whom prosecutors accuse of a key role in the Nov. 13 Paris attacks.

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