Six people were arrested on Thursday in a series of police operations in the Belgian capital, the federal prosecutor's office said, two days after militant attacks in Brussels left 31 dead.
Special police forces stand guard outside the Council Chamber of
Brussels during investigations into the Paris and Brussels terror
attacks. (AFP/Kenzo Tribouillard)
BRUSSELS: Six people were arrested on Thursday in a series
of police operations in the Belgian capital, the federal prosecutor's
office said, two days after militant attacks in Brussels left 31 dead.
Three of the suspects were detained "outside the door of the
federal prosecutor's office," in the city centre, spokesman Eric Van
der Sypt said.
Two further people were arrested elsewhere in the city and
the sixth was detained in Jette, on the outskirts of the capital, the
spokesman said, without giving any further details on their identity.
"It will be decided tomorrow if an arrest warrant (charges) are brought against these people," he added.
At least two men identified by police from surveillance
footage at the airport and metro station where the attacks took place
are still at large.
Raids have also taken place in the Brussels district of
Schaerbeek where the three airport attackers left from on Tuesday
morning carrying three explosive-packed suitcases. There have been no
arrests in the neighbourhood.
- AFP/de
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