Daily Mail: BREAKING NEWS: Anti-terror police shoot suspect holding rucksack at tram station in fresh Brussels swoop as two explosions are heard
* Armed police 'neutralised' terror suspect in Brussels neighbourhood
* Two explosions were heard at the start of the terror raid in Schaerbeek
* Today's raid linked to arrest of Frenchman in Paris on Thursday
* Reda Kriket had been in the 'advances stages' of planning an attack
Armed police shot a terror suspect at a Brussels tram station as they launched fresh raids in the Belgian capital in the wake of the suicide attacks on Tuesday.
Two explosions were heard at the start of the operation in the neighbourhood of Schaerbeek, north Brussels, after which local media reported that one man had been 'neutralised'.
The police operation on Friday afternoon has been linked to an attack plot in France that was foiled by police in Paris on Thursday night when one man was arrested, French police sources said.
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