Day: November 21, 2015

    People in Brussels are being urged to avoid busy areas such as concerts and transport hubs after the city's terror alert was raised to the highest possible level. The Belgian capital's metro transport service will be closed until Sunday afternoon over the "serious and imminent threat". Belgium's Prime Minister said the terror alert was as a result of "quite precise information about the risk of an attack like the one that happened in Paris". Heavily armed soldiers and police are patrolling the city amid fears at least one suspect in the Paris attacks could be in Belgium. Belgium's crisis centre website said it had asked local authorities to cancel large events, urge people to avoid crowds and postpone soccer matches. Belgian PM Charles Michel said the government would revie...

    Hasna Ait Boulahcen, the woman labelled "Europe's first woman suicide bomber" did not blow herself up during a police raid on an apartment building in Saint-Denis, new reports have claimed. Despite French prosecutors initially saying she had detonated an explosives vest and died during the assault on Wednesday, a police source reportedly told Agence France-Presse news agency the suicide bomber who blew themselves up was a man, not a woman. Boulahcen is reported to have shouted: “Help me, help me, I am on fire,” prior to the explosion. Her body parts were later found strewn across the road. It was through intercepting Aitboulahcen's phone calls that security agencies were able to track her cousin Abdelhamid Abaaoud and six other terror suspects to their hiding place. After ...