Brussels Airport bomb suspect Najim Laachraoui has been captured, according to a Belgian newspaper report.
The 25-year-old was arrested in the city's Anderlecht district, the DH newspaper said on its website.
He had been named in Belgian media reports as the third man filmed on CCTV at the airport, alongside two other bombers - brothers Khalid and Ibrahim El Bakraoui, both of whom killed themselves in the attacks.
The circumstances of his arrest were not revealed but the federal prosecutor is reported to be preparing a press briefing for later this morning.
Laachraoui, previously known as Soufiane Kayal, is also suspected of making the bombs used in November's Paris massacres, after his DNA was allegedly found on suicide belts used in the Bataclan Theatre and the Stade de France.
Prosecutors had said on Monday - the day before the Brussels attacks - that he had travelled to Hungary in September with Salah Abdeslam, the prime suspect in the Paris attacks, who was captured by police last week.
Laachraoui is also believed to have travelled to Syria in February 2013.
Sky's Foreign Affairs Editor Sam Kiley says that capturing Laachraoui alive, if confirmed, would be a "major breakthrough".
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