(CNN)– The suspect was wearing a fishing hat, rolled-up shirtsleeves and a raincoat that cannot be found.
And he left the scene of the terrorist bombing at the Brussels airport on March 22 on foot. As police swarmed over the area, he just walked away from the crime.
Belgian police, seeking help from the public in finding this man, released a new series of surveillance images Thursday that show the suspect walking away from the airport in Zaventem, heading west into the Brussels district of Schaerbeek,over the course of two hours following the bombings.
This suspect is the same man shown in a previously released surveillance image taken at the airport before the attack — a man wearing a dark hat and pushing a luggage cart next to two other men who police say killed themselves in the bombings — the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office said.
The bombings at the airport check-in area and, an hour later, at a Brussels subway system killed 32 people and injured more than 300 others.
The man in the images released Thursday is one of two men seen in surveillance footage that day who authorities say are at-large suspects. The other was a man spotted not at the airport, but rather at the Maalbeek metro station, holding a large bag, before the bombing there.
Police: Suspect got rid of his raincoat
The missing airport suspect initially was wearing a fishing hat and a light-colored raincoat, but the newly released images show he ditched the raincoat somewhere along the way, Belgian authorities said Thursday.
Police want to recover the recover the garment, saying in a statement Thursday that “it may hold important traces.”
Detention of Abdeslam and alleged accomplice extended
Also Thursday, the Brussels court extended the detention of terror suspects Salah Abdeslam and Ahmed A. — alias Choukri — according to a statement from the Belgian federal prosecutor.
Earlier, Abdeslam’s lawyer, Sven Mary, had told reporters that it would take weeks to extradite Abdeslam — a suspect in the November terrorist shooting and bombings in Paris — to France following an extradition hearing.
Abdeslam is suspected of having played an important role in planning the November 13 terrorist attacks that killed 130 people in the French capital.
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