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Deaths In Anti-Terror Raid In Belgium: Reports
Three people have died in an anti-terror raid in eastern Belgium, according to reports.
Federal prosecutors were quoted as saying there had been a police operation near the centre of Verviers.
The Belga news agency said there were several casualties and police activity was continuing.
Explosions and gunfire were apparently heard near the station, according to Belgium's public broadcaster RTBF
"An operation is under way," a source in the mayor's office told AFP without giving further details.
Another official said separately it was "jihadist-related".
Earlier, Belgian authorities arrested a man suspected of supplying the gunmen who killed 17 people in Paris, as funerals for the victims of the attacks continued.
Police in Charleroi are holding the man on suspicion of arms dealing after he handed himself in to police in the city on Tuesday.
He told officers he had been in touch with Amedy Coulibaly, the militant who took hostages in a Jewish supermarket in the French capital and was later killed by security forces.
According to reports, the man said he had conned Coulibaly in a car sale.
But police later found evidence the pair were negotiating the sale of bullets for a 7.62mm caliber firearm - the type needed for the Tokarev pistol Coulibaly used in his attack on the supermarket in Paris that left four hostages dead.
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Three people have died in an anti-terror raid in eastern Belgium, according to reports.
Federal prosecutors were quoted as saying there had been a police operation near the centre of Verviers.
The Belga news agency said there were several casualties and police activity was continuing.
Explosions and gunfire were apparently heard near the station, according to Belgium's public broadcaster RTBF
"An operation is under way," a source in the mayor's office told AFP without giving further details.
Another official said separately it was "jihadist-related".
Earlier, Belgian authorities arrested a man suspected of supplying the gunmen who killed 17 people in Paris, as funerals for the victims of the attacks continued.
Police in Charleroi are holding the man on suspicion of arms dealing after he handed himself in to police in the city on Tuesday.
He told officers he had been in touch with Amedy Coulibaly, the militant who took hostages in a Jewish supermarket in the French capital and was later killed by security forces.
According to reports, the man said he had conned Coulibaly in a car sale.
But police later found evidence the pair were negotiating the sale of bullets for a 7.62mm caliber firearm - the type needed for the Tokarev pistol Coulibaly used in his attack on the supermarket in Paris that left four hostages dead.
More follows...