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| Brussels raid over Paris attacks: Dead gunman was Algerian national | |
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| A terror suspect shot dead during a raid in Brussels suburb on Tuesday has been identified as Algerian national Mohammed Belkaid, officials say. | |
| He was shot dead by snipers while trying to fire at police from an apartment window in Forest. | |
| Several officers were wounded in the raid, and police are still hunting two suspects who were in the apartment. | |
| The raid was linked to an investigation into the jihadist attacks in Paris that killed 130 people last November. | |
| The so-called Islamic State (IS) militant group said it carried out the attacks. | |
| According to the prosecutors' spokesman, an IS flag was recovered from the apartment raided on Tuesday, along with Salafist literature and ammunition. | |
| The spokesman said Belkaid was born in 1980, and had been living in Belgium illegally. He was not known to the authorities except for one case of robbery. | |
| French police also took part in Tuesday's operation in Brussels. One of the officers wounded in the raid was a French policewoman, officials said. | |
| Police went to search an apartment in the southern suburb of Forest on Tuesday afternoon. | |
| As they entered the premises, they were fired upon by at least two occupants, the spokesman said. | |
| Several hours later, a special forces sniper shot dead Belkaid as he tried to fire upon police from a window, he said. |