Brussels was on terror lockdown on Saturday in fear of a Paris-style attack, with a gunman wanted over the deadly rampage in the French capital a week ago still on the run.
Brussels was on terror lockdown on Saturday in fear of a Paris-style attack, with a gunman wanted over the deadly rampage in the French capital a week ago still on the run.
The Belgian capital closed its metro system and shuttered shops and public buildings as a terror alert was raised to its highest level over reports of an “imminent threat” of a gun and bomb attack similar to the horror seen in Paris.
Investigators are working around the clock to track Brussels resident Salah Abdeslam, one of the gunmen still on the loose after a coordinated wave of attacks on Parisian nightspots that left 130 people dead on November 13.
Belgium-based jihadists are increasingly at the heart of the Paris investigation and the police have multiplied raids in the city’s immigrant districts in a rush to stop a repeat of ISIS-inspired attacks that have killed hundreds around the world in recent weeks.
