Police have on Wednesday identified the man shot dead during a
raid linked to the Paris terror attacks, saying that an ISIS flag and
extremist manual and materials were found in the operation.
Many officers were wounded in the joint Belgian-French raid Tuesday in the Brussels neighborhood of Forest. A team of six police officers,both French and Belgians came under fire immediately after they opened the door of
the apartment on Rue du Dries, as was reported by the federal prosecutors' office.
Belgian prosecutors said Wednesday that an
Algerian suspect who had a Kalashnikov rifle was killed by a police
sniper — and that two other people targeted in the raid were still on
the run.
Belkaid Mohammed, 35, became a citizen by a
special forces, he attempted to open fire towards the police from
a hiding place," according to the
prosecutors' statement. It said his body was found during a "subsequent
house search" after the raid ended.
Mohammed had been living illegally in Belgium
and was not previously known to authorities except for a case of theft
in 2014, the statement added.
Most of the terrorists behind the Nov. 13 terror attacks in Paris had ties to Brussels according to the NBC News on Tuesday
At least 10 people have been charged and are in
Belgian custody in connection with the attacks, which killed 130 people
across the French capital.
Among those still at large is Salah Abdeslam, a
French national who fled Paris after the attacks. He was not a target of
Tuesday's raid, the police source said.
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