Sat Nov 21, 2015 17:23:53
Brussel's metro has been put into security lockdown after Belgian intelligence received 'precise information' of a planned Paris-style ISIS attack in the capital.
Belgium's Prime Minister Charles Michel confirmed that the decision to raise the terror alert level in Brussels was taken 'based on quite precise information about the risk of an attack like the one that happened in Paris.'
Service has been halted on the Brussels subway system and heavily armed police and soldiers are patrolling the Belgian capital amid a high security alert.
The country's national security center has raised the terror threat level to Level four after fears of a 'serious and imminent' terror threat involving 'weapons and explosives'.
Security forces remain concerned that further terror violence could be imminent in Brussels, where Abdelhamid Abaaoud and Saleh Abdeslam both spent time in the Belgian capital's Molenbeek neighborhood.
Both men grew up in the hardscrabble Molenbeek district, and their family homes stand within a short walk of its main police station; Mailonline reported.
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