One gunman found dead after anti-terror raid in Brussels apartment
- 8 years ago
BRUSSELS — Belgian and French police raided an apartment building in Brussels on Tuesday afternoon. The siege ended later that evening with four police officers wounded and one suspect dead.
In a raid linked to last year’s Paris attacks, police stormed what was presumably an empty apartment in Forest, a Brussels suburb, on Tuesday. They were met with heavy gunfire as two gunmen inside the apartment shot at the officers with automatic rifles.
Three officers were injured in the initial raid, while another officer was injured during a later shootout inside the building, reported the Guardian.
One gunman was found dead when police searched the building after the raid. The unidentified body reportedly does not belong to Salah Abdeslam, a Belgian-born French national who is one of the few Paris attackers to escape alive.
According to the BBC, two suspects are now on the run after fleeing the shootout via the building’s rooftop. A manhunt is now underway for the two men who fled the scene.
Police cordoned off a large area around the building during the raid. Police told the BBC that they plan to widen the search area and may investigate a second location.
A joint French and Belgian anti-terrorism squad continue to hunt down suspects connected to last year’s attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. So far, it’s not clear what connection this particular apartment building had to those deadly attacks.
In a raid linked to last year’s Paris attacks, police stormed what was presumably an empty apartment in Forest, a Brussels suburb, on Tuesday. They were met with heavy gunfire as two gunmen inside the apartment shot at the officers with automatic rifles.
Three officers were injured in the initial raid, while another officer was injured during a later shootout inside the building, reported the Guardian.
One gunman was found dead when police searched the building after the raid. The unidentified body reportedly does not belong to Salah Abdeslam, a Belgian-born French national who is one of the few Paris attackers to escape alive.
According to the BBC, two suspects are now on the run after fleeing the shootout via the building’s rooftop. A manhunt is now underway for the two men who fled the scene.
Police cordoned off a large area around the building during the raid. Police told the BBC that they plan to widen the search area and may investigate a second location.
A joint French and Belgian anti-terrorism squad continue to hunt down suspects connected to last year’s attacks in Paris that killed 130 people. So far, it’s not clear what connection this particular apartment building had to those deadly attacks.