Armed police shoot man ‘carrying a bomb in a rucksack after he takes a woman hostage’ at Brussels tram station as they swoop on terror suspects linked to ‘imminent attack in France’
Armed police ‘neutralised’ terror suspect carrying a rucksack in the Brussels neighbourhood of Schaerbeek today
Two explosions were heard at the start of the terror swoop, after which a man was shot in the leg at a tram stop
Dramatic footage shows shot suspect being forced to drop the bag after which it was investigated by bomb squad
Operation linked to arrest in Paris last night of Reda Kriket, who had been in ‘advanced stages’ of planning an attack
By Flora Drury In Brussels, Belgium and Sara Malm and Julian Robinson and Nick Fagge
DailyMail.com
25 March 2016
A woman was taken hostage by a suspected terrorist during a dramatic stand-off at a tram stop in Brussels today, witnesses say.
Armed police shot the suspect as part of a fresh swoop to thwart an ‘imminent attack’ on France. A second suspect was also shot in the raid, which began in a flat in the nearby Schaerbeek area, north Brussels.
Footage shows police coaxing a child away from the injured suspect, who was shot in the leg at the tram stop amid reports he was carrying a bomb in a rucksack.
Belgian prosecutors confirmed the man was linked to a planned attack in France, which was foiled by the French authorities last night in a separate raid in Paris.
Footage shows police ‘neutralising’ the suspect before dragging him off behind a nearby car as they arrested him in front of terrified witnesses.
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