THE last will and testament of one of the Brussels attacks suicide bombers has been uncovered – in a bin.
BOMBER: Ibrahim El-Barkraoui, a controlled explosion at Zaventem Airport and casualties inside
Ibrahim El-Barkraoui – one of the suicide bombers who killed 11 with an explosion at Zaventem Airport in the Belgian capital – left a “will” on a computer.
The computer was found dumped in a bin in Schaerbeek, in the north east of the Belgian capital.
Police uncovered a nail bomb and an ISIS flag in a flat there – after a tip-off from a taxi driver.
KILLER: Ibrahim El-Barkraoui pictured in CCTV at the airport
Police told a press conference that 29-year-old El-Barkraoui – whose brother Khalid carried a separate suicide bombing of at the Maalbeek Metro station – said: "I don't know what to do.
"I'm in a hurry.
"I'm on the run.
"People are looking for me everywhere.
"And if I give myself up then I'll end up in a cell."
Two explosions ripped through the busy international airport just before 8am on Tuesday.
A third man – Najim Laachraoui – is believed to have fled the airport after a larger bomb did not detonate.
Prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw said: "The second one on the left of the photograph has not been identified.
"The third one – in a hat – is still on the run and his bomb did not explode.
"It contained the biggest explosive charge and there was great instability of the explosives."
WANTED: Najim Laachraoui is also wanted in connection with the Paris attacks
Police uncovered a treasure trove of terror kit in a raid in the north east Brussels district of Schaerbeek on Tuesday night.
A tip-off from a taxi driver who "gave a lift to three persons who had big bags" led cops to the flat.
Officers found 15kg of explosives, 150 litres of acetone, 30 litres of oxygenated water, detonators, a suitcase filled with screws and nails as well as materials – and an ISIS flag.
It has emerged Laachraoui and the El-Barkraoui brothers slipped through a police net just days ago.
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.
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 a criminal records – but have not been linked by the police to terrorism until now.
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