#Terrorism: At least four police officers injured following house search in Brussels, one suspect killed

On Tuesday afternoon (15 March), at least four policemen were shot and injured following a house search n Brussels linked to the Paris attacks from November 2015, when 130 people were killed by Islamic terrorists. Two of the four injured police officers are currently in hospital, one of them is a French police woman. The house search took place in the neighbourhood of Forest (Vorst), a quarter in the south-west of Brussels. During the raid the police killed one suspect, two others were caught on late Tuesday evening.

The raid on a house in Driesstraat' in the Brussels area of Forest, which was linked to Paris attacks investigations, started in the afternoon on Tuesday (15 March) and kept the police busy for several hours, until late at night.

According to reports, two suspects escaped on a roof during the raid and started shooting at the police, later they barricaded themselves inside the house. At least 20 police cars were seen at the scenery and both Belgian and French police officers were involved in the operation. Several roads in Forest were blocked by the police and residents of the surrounding buildings had to leave their homes. Other local residents were told by the police to stay inside their homes. On late Tuesday evening, the police managed to arrest the two armed suspects.

The third suspect, who was killed, is according to reports not Salah Abdeslam, one of the fugitives of the Paris attacks. Instead he has been identified as an Algerian national, Mohammed Belkaid, officials said on Wednesday (16 March) in Brussels.

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