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| Brussels attacks: 'Suspect neutralised after explosion and gunfire heard' during police operations in Schaerbeek | |
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| Explosions and gunfire have reportedly been heard during police operations in Brussels. | |
| Witnesses described what sounded like two blasts at the start of the raid in Schaerbeek on Saturday, where a suspect has reportedly been "neutralised". | |
| The area was closed of and a nearby tram was evacuated as armed police and military vehicles were seen in the area, according to RBTF News. | |
| A sighting of a bomb disposal squad and specialist robot sparked speculation that there had been a controlled explosion. | |
| Local residents have been told to say inside their homes and a large security cordon has been put in place. | |
| Belgian police arrested seven people overnight as part of ongoing investigations into Tuesday's attacks, while two more suspects were arrested in Germany and one more in France. | |
| Isis suicide bombers killed at least 31 people and wounding almost 300 more in blasts at Brussels Airport and Maelbeek Metro station. | |
| Investigators believe the massacres may have been carried out by the same terror cell responsible for the Paris attacks in November. | |
| The Belgian federal prosecutor's office said six people were held during searches in the Brussels neighbourhoods of Schaerbeek and Jette overnight, as well as in the centre of the Belgian capital. A seventh man was reportedly arrested in the Forest area of Brussels early on Friday morning. | |
| One of the suspects arrested in Germany had received phone messages with the name of the Metro station bomber and the word “fin” - French for “end” - three minutes before the blast, Der Spiegel reported. | |
| In Paris, 34-year-old Reda Kriket was arrested on allegations he was at an “advanced stage” of plotting an attack. The French national wad convicted for membership of a jihadist network in absentia last year, alongside Paris attacks ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud. | |
| Additional reporting by agencies |