Belgian police continued military-style raids throughout the capital city Friday night, arresting three more people in connection with Tuesday’s terrorist attacks and shooting two of them in the process. Officials said one man had been carrying a suspicious bag and was accompanied with a young girl.
Law enforcement engaged in gunfire in an afternoon altercation during the raid of an apartment in the Schaerbeek district of Brussels that had been used by the suicide bombers, according to an intitial report.
Belgian police detained six people late Thursday in raids that targeted central Brussels. Police focused their efforts in the central part of the city where officials had found bomb-making materials in prior searches.
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The nightly raids come three days after attacks by members of the Islamic State at an airport and metro station killed 31 and injured more than 260 people. Many of the deceased have still not been identified.
Law enforcement in Paris, France, also arrested a French national they said had been planning an attack, but was not connected to this week’s Brussels attack or one in Paris last fall. Two suspects in the attacks are still at-large and officials spent much of Thursday following leads, though authorities suspect they may have already fled the country.
