Brussels attacks: Belgian police arrest six suspects

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Brussels attacks: Belgian police arrest six suspects

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From the section Europe



Belgian police have arrested six people in Brussels as a major investigation continues into attacks that claimed 31 lives in the city on Tuesday. The arrests were made in the Schaerbeek district. There is no word yet on the identities of the suspects or their possible connection to the attacks.

Separately, in France, a suspect who was plotting an attack has been arrested near Paris.
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Residents said they heard explosions during the police raids but the cause was unclear.

Belgian media reports on Friday suggest a seventh arrest was made in the Forest district of Brussels.

Also on Thursday evening, French police launched an anti-terrorism operation in Argenteuil, north-west of Paris, following the arrest hours earlier of a man suspected of planning an attack. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the suspected militant, a French national, was in an "advanced stage" of a plot, adding that no connection had been made to either the Brussels or the Paris attacks.

However, French media quote police sources as saying the suspect, named as Reda Kriket, was convicted in his absence by a Brussels court last year for recruiting IS members to go to Syria. He was convicted along with Abdelhamid Abaaoud, considered the main organiser of the Paris attacks and killed in a police raid in Paris days later.
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