New Year terror plot: Belgium arrests 2

Belgian police have arrested two people suspected of planning attacks in Brussels to be carried out on New Year’s eve, prosecutors say.
Raids took place on Sunday and Monday in different parts of the country, according to officials.

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Military clothing and propaganda materials were seized in the raids.

Belgium has been on high alert since the attacks of 13 November in Paris. Several of the perpetrators are thought to have been based in Belgium.

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