Two dead in Belgian anti-terror raid

Two suspects are dead and a third is in custody after Belgian police on Thursday conducted an anti-terror raid in the town of Verviers.

The suspects were part of a "terrorist cell planning attacks in Belgium," a spokesperson for the Belgian federal prosecutor told The New York Times. The raid came on the same day Belgian police arrested a man accused of selling weapons to Amedy Coulibaly, the gunman who last week took hostages in a Paris supermarket before being killed by police.

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