BRUSSELS: Belgian media which earlierreported the arrest on Wednesday of a prime suspect in Tuesday'sbomb attacks in Brussels said the person detained was not, infact, Najim Laachraoui.La Libre Belgique newspaper said another person had beenarrested.
DH, which first reported the story, also said the mandetained in the Anderlecht district had been misidentified.
Police and prosecutors have been declining all comment butwill hold a news conference at noon GMT.
Police arehunting Laachraoui, 25, as being a man seen withsuspected suicide bombers at Brussels airport.
Laachraoui's DNA has been found in houses used by the Paris attackers last year, prosecutors said on Monday, and he had traveled to Hungary in September with Paris attacks prime suspect Salah Abdeslam.
Suicide bombers were brothers
Earlier, the RTBF public broadcaster, quoting an unnamed source said the two suicide bombers who carried out the attacks at the Brussels airport on Tuesday were brothers Khalid and Brahim El Bakraoui – Brussels residents known to the police for crime.
Khalid, under a false name, had rented the flat in the Forest borough of the Belgian capital where police killed a gunman in a raid last week, RTBF said.
Investigators found after that raid a Deash (Islamic State) flag, an assault rifle, detonators and a fingerprint of Salah Abdeslam, who was arrested three days later.
Both brothers have criminal records, but have not been linked by the police to terrorism until now, RTBF said.