Police arrest 2 suspected of plotting attack in Belgium

BRUSSELS:– Belgian police arrested two men suspected of plotting a terror attack in Belgium as Europe remained on edge Saturday following a rising wave of militant bloodshed on the continent. Police arrested two men, identified as Noureddine H. and his brother Hamza H., after house searches late Friday in Belgium's French-speaking areas of Mons and Liege, federal prosecutors said. "Both are suspected of planning a terrorist attack somewhere in Belgium," a spokesman said in an English version of the statement. The French version referred to "planning attacks" in the plural.–AFP

The prosecutor's office said there was for now no connection with the bombings on March 22 at Brussels airport and a metro station near the European Union headquarters that left 32 people dead.

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