Paris attacks suspect reportedly captured in Belgian raid
Belgian police captured Paris terrorist attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam in a raid on Friday, the Belgian prime minister confirmed. Abdeslam was reportedly wounded after being shot in the leg. Two other suspects were also captured during the raid.
Abdeslam's fingerprints and DNA had been discovered in a Brussels apartment during a raid earlier this week, in which one person was killed and two people escaped. A Belgian-born French citizen, Abdeslam, 26, is thought to have been the driver who dropped three suicide bombers off near the Stade de France during the Paris terrorist attacks; an abandoned suicide belt found on the street afterward is believed to have been his. The November attacks left 130 people dead.
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