Brussels bomber left frantic will in trash can: 'I don't know what to do'

A hastily written will by one of the suspected Brussels bombers has given some insight into the lives the extremists were living before their devastating attacks on Brussels' airport and a metro station on Tuesday, Newsweek reports.

The will was discovered on attacker Ibrahim el-Bakraoui's computer in a trash can in Brussels. "I don't know what to do, hunted everywhere, no longer safe," the note said, according to Federal Prosecutor Frederic Van Leeuw.

The will also expressed fear for Salah Abdeslam, the Paris attacker who was captured in Brussels last Friday. "I don't want to end up in a cell next to him," Bakraoui said in his note.

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Ibrahim el-Bakraoui's brother, Khalid el-Bakraoui, was also one of the attackers in Tuesday's bombings. A third attacker, who has been identified as Najim Laachraoui, is said to be on the run.

The two explosions at Zaventem airport, plus a third at a metro station, killed at least 31 people and wounded about 270 others. ISIS has claimed responsibility for the attack.