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Thursday, February 22, 2018
Belgian police lock down part of Brussels amid reports of gunman
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleBelgian police have sealed off part of a Brussels suburb amid media reports that an armed man could be at large.
Armed police officers reportedly hiding behind buildings and staking out a building rooftop in the Forest neighborhood of the Belgian capital.
Broadcaster RTL quotes Forest mayor Marc-Jean Ghyssels as saying that police “suspect the presence of an armed man.”
A suspect in the deadly Paris attacks in November 2015, Salah Abdeslam, hid in Forest and was caught up in a shootout with police in a nearby apartment.
— AP
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