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BRUSSELS, April 7 (UPI) -- Belgium has released new footage of a man they say helped launch the deadly Islamic State bombing attack on the Brussels airport. Belgian prosecutors released the video showing the path the suspect took after leaving Brussels Airport. Officials are asking for the public's help in tracking down the suspect. Three suspects are believed to have launched the airport attack on March 22, with two of the suspects dying in suicide blasts.
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Najim Laachraoui, one of the suspected Brussels bombers who died, is believed to have previously worked in the European Parliament building as a custodian when he was a student.
The European Parliament on Wednesday announced that one of the Brussels bombers worked at its facility, though it declined to identify the man by name. Reports indicate, though, the bomber has been identified as Laachraoui.
"The European Parliament confirms that seven and six years ago, one of the perpetrators of the Brussels terrorist attacks worked for a period of one month for a cleaning company which was contracted by the European Parliament at the time," the European Parliament said in a statement.
"As a student, he held a summer holiday job cleaning at the Parliament for one month in 2009 and one month in 2010. Those were the only instances he worked at the Parliament. As required by the contract, the cleaning firm submitted proof of the absence of a criminal record to the European Parliament," the statement added.
In the days before the Brussels attack, police launched a manhunt for Laachraoui after his DNA was allegedly found in homes used by the Islamic State network responsible for the Nov. 13 attacks in Paris that killed 130 people.
The Islamic State bombings in Brussels killed 32 people at the airport and the Maalbeek subway station as well as three suicide attackers.
The Belgian Federal Police video showing footage of the remaining suspect is found below, narrated in Dutch:
