Prosecutors appeal for info on Brussels Airport suspect

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In this image provided by the Belgian Federal Police in Brussels on Tuesday, March 22, 2016, three men who are suspected of taking part in the attacks at Belgium’s Zaventem Airport and are being sought by police. The men on both the left and right are yet unidentified, the man at center has been the identified by the Federal Prosecutors office on Wednesday, March 23, 2016 as Ibrahim El Bakraoui. (Belgian Federal Police via AP)

Belgian prosecutors have launched a public appeal for any information on the “man in hat” suspect in the Brussels Airport suicide bombings that killed 16 people.

Belgian Federal Prosecutor Eric Van Der Sypt addresses the media during a press conference in Brussels on Thursday April 7, 2016. The Federal Prosecutor's Office and the Examining Magistrate in Brussels made available new CCTV footage and stills of the third suspect of the recent terrorists attack at Brussels airport during his escape from the airport after the blasts. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Belgian Federal Prosecutor Eric Van Der Sypt addresses the media during a press conference in Brussels on Thursday April 7, 2016. The Federal Prosecutor’s Office and the Examining Magistrate in Brussels made available new CCTV footage and stills of the third suspect of the recent terrorists attack at Brussels airport during his escape from the airport after the blasts. (AP Photo/Geert Vanden Wijngaert)

Belgian Federal Prosecutor Eric Van der Sypt said Thursday that authorities were especially appealing to people who might have filmed or photographed the man.

He was seen with two suicide bombers who died in the 22 March attacks.

A subsequent explosion at Brussels’ Maelbeek (Maalbeek) subway station killed another 16 people the same day.

Photos released by the prosecutors showed him leaving the airport on foot, walking to the nearby town of Zaventem and then into Brussels, where all traces of him were reportedly lost.

In this image provided by the Belgian Federal Police in Brussels on Tuesday, March 22, 2016, a man suspected of taking part in the attacks at Belgium's Zaventem Airport and are being sought by police pushes a trolley in the airport terminal. The man has been the identified by the Federal Prosecutors office on Wednesday, March 23, 2016 as Ibrahim El Bakraoui. (Belgian Federal Police via AP)

In this image provided by the Belgian Federal Police in Brussels on Tuesday, March 22, 2016, a man suspected of taking part in the attacks at Belgium’s Zaventem Airport and are being sought by police pushes a trolley in the airport terminal. The man has been the identified by the Federal Prosecutors office on Wednesday, March 23, 2016 as Ibrahim El Bakraoui. (Belgian Federal Police via AP)

Story by the Associated Press.