3 KILLED IN ANTI TERROR RAID IN BELGIUM

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possibly 3 dead after shots were fired during anti-terror raid in Verviers, Eastern Belgium.
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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".

The incident reportedly took place in a street called Rue des Ecoles.

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.

possible reports of an "arab" man with gun at metro station in Brussels

The world's gone mad.

thought to be jihadis who have returned from Syria and were planning to attack the police station. They had machine guns.

Sky:

It said there were no casualties among the security forces involved.

Hope that's correct; I won't be shedding any tears if another three jihadists are dead.

me either.

no great loss are they?

No loss whatsoever, Rhodes, and it looks as if this time, they haven't murdered any innocents first.

as the Crankies would say

Fan Dab a dosie

Bad news - one of the crazies appears to have survived, according to Sky:


grahamfitzgerald 2 hours ago
Prosecutor confirms two people dead and one arrested.

The human rights lawyers will be forming a queue.