Belgian police killed a gunman on Tuesday in a raid on a Brussels apartment linked to Islamist militants involved in November's Paris attacks, and two others were on the run, Belgian media reports.
Belgian police killed a gunman on Tuesday in a raid on a Brussels apartment linked to Islamist militants involved in November's Paris attacks, and two others were on the run, Belgian media reports.
The shootout happened as a joint team of Belgian and French police arrived to search an address as part of the investigation into the Paris attacks of 13 November which killed 130 people, The Guardian informs.
According to Belgium's federal prosecutor said earlier two individuals had barricaded themselves into an apartment after police had come under heavy weapon fire through a door when carrying out the raid.
Later, local media reported that the police surrounded a flat, in which one of the suspects was shot dead in an exchange of fire. Two others are still on the run.
Reuters writes that one of the prime suspects, 26-year-old Brussels-based Frenchman Salah Abdeslam, is still on the run. He left Paris shortly after his brother blew himself up in the attacks. Belgian authorities are holding 10 people who have been arrested in the months since the attacks, mostly for helping Abdeslam.
The incident happened near railway lines used by high-speed trains to London and Paris. Four police officers were wounded during the fire.
