Brussels attacks: Could explosives-stained gloves found on bus help track 'Man in White'?
POLICE hunting the 'Man in White' suspected of attacking the city's airport were today focusing on two explosives-stained gloves found on a bus.
Two explosives-stained gloves found on a bus could be linked to the 'Man in White'
A week on from the Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist attacks that killed 35 people across the capital, the authorities still do not know the identity of the mysterious suspect captured on CCTV footage.
Wearing a white raincoat and hat, he was pushing a loaded luggage trolley alongside two known suicide bombers.
Each was wearing a single black glove on their left hands, suggesting that they were using them to hide detonators.
Now detectives have confirmed that two right-handed gloves were found on a bus that left the airport soon after the blasts which destroyed a departure building.
The gloves tested positive for explosives and are suspected to be the match to the gloves that were worn by the two bombers, American officials told the Wall Street Journal.
Investigators are trying to work out if they were left on the bus by the 'third man'.
The three Brussels suspects
He was originally thought to be Faycal Cheffou - a local freelance journalist.
Mr Cheffou was originally charged with terrorist offences but was later released in an astonishing u-turn after Brussels police said they had no evidence to place him at the scene.
As well as triggering the two devices which went off at the airport, killing 11 people, the gloves could have prevented an accidental early detonation caused by a wire touching metal and completing the electrical circuit of the bombs.
The terrorist attacks killed 35 people across Brussels
Four people died from their wounds after the attacks on Monday
The revelation that one of the attackers took a bus suggests that he could have made his way to the Maalbeek metro station.
A bomb went off there inside a train carriage, around an hour after the airport attacks. Khalid el-Bakraoui, the terrorist responsible for the blast, was caught on CCTV with another suspect who has not been identified either.
The death toll from the Brussels attacks climbed to 35 victims on Monday, excluding the suicide attackers. It followed four people dying from their wounds on Monday.