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Urgent: 12 people arrested in anti-terror operation in Belgium

Xinhua, June 18, 2016 Adjust font size:

Twelve people suspected of planning new attacks were arrested during dozens of anti-terrorism operation in Belgium overnight, the federal prosecutor's office said in a statement released on Saturday.

The raids, mainly in Brussels, came three days after the Belgian police received an anti-terror alert that warns of a series of imminent attacks in France and Belgium.

In addition, the prosecutor said in a statement on Friday evening that Belgian man Youssef E.A. was under arrest due to "participation in the activities of a terrorist group, terrorist murders and attempts to commit terrorist murders." Endi