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Brussels bombing suspect let go as new 'man in hat' CCTV footage released

Belgian police have released a man that they had initially charged with "participation in a terrorist group" and "terrorist killings" in connection with the Brussels attacks on the same day that they revealed new CCTV footage of another suspect.

Faycal C, who was the only person charged in connection with last week's attacks, was released due to "lack of evidence", prosecutors said.

It comes as US Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump warned Britain and Europe are "not safe" following the recent terror attacks.

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Turkey says it warned Brussels of bomber's terror links

Turkey said it warned Belgium that El Bakraoui was a militant

Belgian authorities has been warned that Brussels Airport suicide bomber Ibrahim El Bakraoui was a terror threat, the Turkish president has said.

Turkish authorities arrested El Bakraoui in June last year and deported him to the Netherlands.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkish officials told both Belgium and the Netherlands that he was a "foreign terrorist fighter."

Despite our warnings that this person was a foreign terrorist fighter, Belgium could not establish any links with terrorism.

– Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Ibrahim El Bakraoui was one of three bombers who targeted Brussels Airport in a suicide attack that killed 14 people on Tuesday morning.

El Bakraoui and another bomber died, while the third man, whose device is believed to have failed, fled the scene and remains at large.

El Bakraoui's brother, Khalid, blew himself up at Maelbeek Metro Station around an hour after the airport attack, killing 20 people.

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