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An official in the office of the Turkish President has said Turkey detained Ibrahim El Bakraoui in June 2015.

He was deported to the Netherlands at his own request but Turkey says it warned both Belgium and the Netherlands he was a "foreign terrorist fighter."

The official says Dutch authorities allowed him to go free because Belgium could not establish any ties to terrorism.

The claim raises worrying question marks about the Belgian security services as they were warned in advance of possible militant activity.

Speaking at a news conference, Erdogan said that the man was deported at his own request and Turkey also notified Dutch authorities.

Two suicide bombers who detonated explosives at Zaventem Airport and a Metro station on Tuesday morning – killing 31 – have been named as brothers Khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui.

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Ibrahim struck at the airport while Khalid attacked the Maalbeek station in the heart of the Belgian capital.

Police are still hunting Najim Laachraoui – seen wearing a white jacket, a dark hat and a light coloured shirt and pushing a trolley in Zaventem Airport.

All three managed to escape capture when Belgian police carried out a botched raid on a terrorist safehouse in the Forest area of Brussels on March 15.

A third "mystery bomber" pictured in CCTV at the airport is yet to be identified.

A man in white was seen running from the airport. Laachraoui is thought to have fled when his suicide bomb failed to detonate.

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Bungling cops admitted they were carrying out a "routine" search on the flat – without the backup of special forces – when the jihadis inside opened fire, injuring four officers.

The El Bakraoui brothers fled via rooftops as police hurriedly brought in firearms cops – who cornered and killed another of the gunmen – 35-year-old Algerian illegal immigrant Mohammed Belkaid.

Both brothers have criminal records – but have not been linked by the police to terrorism until now.

One of the suicide bombers at Brussels airport left a will in a bin, according to Belgian authorities.

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Laachraoui is thought to have been the chief bomb maker for the November 13 Paris Attacks, which killed 130.

Belgian media mistakenly reported he was arrested in a pizzeria in Anderlecht, Belgium, in the early hours of this morning.

But it is now believed that was another suspect – and Laachraoui is still at large.

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Raids were carried out across Brussels overnight as authorities look to shut down the killer terror cell.

A nail bomb, ISIS flag and chemicals were found at one property in Schaerbeek, in the north east of the Belgian capital.

The attacks left at least 34 people dead and injured at least 200 – including two Britons.

Salah Abdeslam – who is in custody after being charged over the Paris attacks – is also thought to have "played a part" in the Brussels attacks.

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Three men have now been arrested on suspicion of terror offences on a motorway between Munich and Salzburg.

The men were said to have been Kosovans who had travelled from Brussels.

A spokesman for the Office of Criminal Police of Bavaria stressed there are is currently no evidence of links to this morning’s terror attacks and enquiries are ongoing.

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Shots were fired as those responsible reportedly shouted in Arabic before two explosions ripped through the departure hall of the airport yesterday.

Every space in the airport is covered by four CCTV cameras – which captured the picture of the three jihadi suspects.

The image was released on Twitter as death cult ISIS claimed responsibility for the massacres.

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Reports highlighted the similarity of clothing of the El Bakraoui brothers.

They both appear to be wearing a glove on their left hand only – with reports suggesting they are hiding detonators.

The picture was reportedly leaked by Belgian police hours after Brussels was crippled by two waves of terror attacks at the city’s airport and the Metro system.

The airport will be closed until Thursday night as the country comes to terms with the tragedy.