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Brussels terror attacks suspects arrested
There are indications that a terror suspect, spotted in a surveillance camera wearing a hat in the attack on the Brussels Airport, was arrested on Friday.
Investigators in Belgium are still trying to determine if Mohammed Abrini, arrested in Anderlecht, is connected to the airport attack. They also are trying to determine whether a man arrested separately was part of the second attack at a Brussels metro station an hour later.
According to Belgian federal prosecutor, Thierry Werts, Abrini was arrested with two others.
Similarly, Osama Krayem and another person were taken into custody in another police operation in the Belgian Capital, Brussels.
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The identity of the other person arrested alongside Krayem was not disclosed by Eric Van der Sypt, another prosecutor’s spokesman.
Sypt said Krayem might be the second person “present at the time of the attack at the Maelbeek subway station.”
Abrini has been tied to the terror attacks on Paris in November. Now authorities can question him about the airport bombings on March 22, part of the attacks that killed 32 people.
Abrini, a 31-year-old Belgian-Moroccan, had been among Europe’s most wanted and was considered “armed and dangerous.”
His arrest means that Belgian authorities now have at least two people, along with Salah Abdeslam, who have been directly tied to the attacks in Paris.
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