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| Belgian police hunt at least one gunman after Brussels anti-terror raid | |
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| Belgian police investigating November’s Paris attacks are hunting at least one gunman after shots were fired during a raid on a house in Brussels, a spokesman for the federal prosecutors office has said. | |
| A police spokeswoman said three police officers had been wounded, but did not give details on the severity of the injuries.One of the officers was hit in the ear and head and is in a serious condition, the Dernière Heure newspaper reported. Two suspects were on the run after the incident, the paper said. | |
| Witnesses reported a heavy exchange of fire that lasted several minutes, RTL radio said. | |
| Police blocked roads in the Belgian capital’s southern suburb of Forest and a major operation appeared to be under way, journalists at the scene said. | |
| “Police were fired at,” Eric Van Der Sypt, a spokesman for the federal prosecutor said, adding that the search was “linked to the Paris attacks investigation”. | |
| The French interior minister, Bernard Cazeneuve, said French police were also involved in the operation. “It was in the context of a raid. A team made up of Belgian and French police officers intervened and came under fire – shots from heavy weapons,” Cazeneuve said at a news conference in Ivory Coast. | |
| People in two schools and two nurseries near the scene were asked to remain indoors and the security cordon around the area was extended, the local mayor’s office said. | |
| The incident took place across the street from an Audi auto factory and the train lines leading to the Gare du Midi railway station where Eurostar trains to London and Thalys trains to Paris run from. | |
| Belgian security forces are still hunting suspects and associates of Brussels-based militants involved in the attacks in Paris on 13 November in which 130 people were killed. | Belgian security forces are still hunting suspects and associates of Brussels-based militants involved in the attacks in Paris on 13 November in which 130 people were killed. |
| Two weeks after the Paris attacks Brussels was put on five days of lockdown with authorities warning of an imminent threat of violence. | |
| Since mid-November, 11 people have been arrested and charged in Belgium in connection with the killings and eight are still in detention. | |
| More details soon … | More details soon … |