(Police say they are looking for the man on the right in connection with the Brussels attack).
Brussels, Belgium (CNN)In
grainy images from surveillance footage, a man wearing light-colored
clothes and a hat pushes a baggage cart through the airport.
It's
one key piece of evidence authorities are looking at as they search for
suspects after two explosions at the Brussels airport and another at a
busy metro station in the Belgian capital Tuesday killed at least 30
people and wounded 230 others.
ISIS
claimed responsibility for the coordinated attacks, but authorities said
it's too soon to say for sure whether the terror group was behind the
blasts.
So far, police have released photos of three men they say are suspects tied to the airport attack, standing side-by-side.
Two
of the men, wearing black in surveillance images, are believed to be
suicide bombers who died in the explosions in the airport's departure
lounge.
But
investigators believe the one in light-colored clothing planted a bomb
at the airport, then left. Authorities called him a wanted man and asked
for the public's help tracking him down.
"The
third man left a bomb in the airport, but it didn't explode. ... And we
are now looking for this guy," Belgium's Interior Minister Jan Jambon
said.
A photograph released by investigators shows the three suspects side-by-side.
Federal Prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw said the two men wearing black in the photograph were likely the suicide attackers.
Video
shows the men exiting a taxi and moving through the airport, according
to two U.S. officials. The man dressed in white left the airport after
accompanying the other two, they said -- a move the officials said
appeared to be planned.
Taxi driver tip sparks raid
A break in the investigation may have come from a taxi driver who took the suspects to the airport.
The
driver contacted authorities after seeing surveillance footage and gave
them the address where he picked the men up, according to two U.S.
officials briefed on the investigation.
That information prompted authorities to raid a residence after the attacks, the officials said.
Investigators
found a nail bomb, chemical products and an ISIS flag during a house
search in the northeast Brussels neighborhood of Schaerbeek, Belgium's
federal prosecutor said in a statement.
Hours later, they were still combing through the building for evidence.
Security was high. At one point, a helicopter hovered overhead, carrying a sniper with a weapon trained on the building.
As
masked, armed officers stood guard outside the building, the burst of
camera flashes inside could be seen from the street below. Officers left
the building carrying bags of evidence they loaded onto vehicles.
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