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Belgium: Civil rights in firing line after attacks
Police hunting second airport bomber

POLICE were hunting a suspect in the Brussels bombings yesterday as Belgian politicians urged a crackdown on civil liberties in response to the atrocities.

Tuesday’s bomb attacks at Zaventem airport and Maelbeek metro station killed 34 people and injured some 200.

Belgian Federal Prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw identified two of the attackers as brothers Ibrahim El Bakraoui, one of two suicide bombers at the airport, and Khalid El Bakraoui, who blew himself up the station.

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