Paris terror attack suspected
ringleader Salah Abdeslam was arrested Friday after being shot
and wounded in the Brussels suburb of Molenbeek, local media
said.
He was said to have been arrested with a wounded accomplice.
Abdeslam was one of two people who evaded arrest during a
shootout at an apartment in the Brussels suburb of Forest
Tuesday. One Islamist gunman was reportedly shot dead by a
police sniper at the scene. Fingerprints and DNA belonging to
the fugitive, who has been on the run since the 13 November
attacks that killed 130 people, were reportedly discovered by
Belgian officers during Tuesday's raid.
Belgian prosecutors on Friday confirmed his fingerprints
were found at the apartment in the Forest area of the city.
The 26-year-old Brussels-born Frenchman, is believed to have
played a key logistical role in the attacks on the French
capital. His older brother Brahim was a suicide bomber.
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