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The man killed Tuesday during an anti-terror raid south of Brussels has been identified as Mohammed Belkaid, a 36-year-old Algerian national who was in Belgium illegally.
Four police officers, including one French policewoman, were wounded during the raid, which was carried out jointly by Belgian and French authorities.
Anti-terror police arrived at a flat for a routine search. They came under fire from inside the building.
Prosecutors told reporters Mohamed Belkaid was shot dead when he tried to fire at the officers from a window. They said he had been living “illegally” in Belgium.
“Next to the body was a Kalashnikov as well as a book on Salafism,” Thierry Werts, Belgian Federal Prosecutor’s spokesperson. “Also an ISIL flag was found in the flat, as well as eleven Kalashnikov ammunition loader and a lot of shell casings.”
Belgium’s prime minister said that the country would stay on its second-highest state of security readiness.
“Keeping the alert level at three means that a threat is credible and possible. Level three is not an ordinary level, we have sensed for months that level three is likely to last for some time; the events of yesterday have clearly demonstrated why level three is set.”
The joint Belgian-French operation is linked to November’s Paris attacks, and is ongoing.
Police are still hunting for two suspects.
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