Belgian police continue neighborhood raids as terror investigation spreads across Europe

(Image credit: PATRIK STOLLARZ/AFP/Getty Images)

published 25 March 2016

Specialized police units stormed a building in the Schaerbeek section of Brussels Friday on the hunt for people connected to Tuesday's bombings at the Brussels airport and a subway station. Three people were reportedly detained, with two of them shot in the leg. Schaerbeek has multiple connections to both the Paris and Brussels attacks and was also the site of a major raid Thursday night, which resulted in six arrests.

Meanwhile, German authorities announced Friday that a man arrested during a routine identity check at a train station in Giessen, Germany, Thursday may have links to the Brussels attackers. And in France, police reportedly foiled a major terror attack with the arrest of a suspect named Reda Kriket on Thursday outside of Paris.

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Lauren Hansen produces The Weekâ€™s podcasts and videos and edits the photo blog, Captured. She also manages the production of the magazine's iPad app. A graduate of Kenyon College and Northwestern University, she previously worked at the BBC and Frontline. She knows a thing or two about pretty pictures and cute puppies, both of which she tweets about @mylaurenhansen.

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