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Police and military were a regular sight this weekend in much emptier than normal Brussels (Photo: Miguel Discart)

Belgian police arrest 16 in anti-terror raid

The Belgian police arrested 16 suspects in a raid on Sunday evening (22 November), but fugitive terror suspect Salah Abdeslam was not among them.

Authorities carried out 22 house searches in Belgium related to their investigation into a possible planned attack on Brussels, which has seen the centre of the city in a near-lockdown this weekend.

Nineteen of the arrests were made in the Brussels region and three in Charleroi, fifty kilometers south of the Belgian capital. No explosive...

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Police and military were a regular sight this weekend in much emptier than normal Brussels (Photo: Miguel Discart)

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