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Belgium Police Capture Main Suspect In Paris Attacks

Anti-terror Belgium police arrested 26-year-old Salah Abdeslam on Friday, their top suspect in the Paris attacks that killed 130 people. He is the last of the suspected terrorists who carried out the atrocity last November, the other nine either got killed or committed suicide. VIDEO: Footage shows the moment #ParisAttacks mastermind is arrested in #Brussels earlier – @onlinemagazin pic.twitter.com/r1oSYyzj9k — Conflict News (@Conflicts) March 18, 2016 Fusion reports: A Belgian minister apparently tweeted “we got him” after the capture, but the tweet has since been deleted. “We got him” said Belgian minister Theo Francken, after Brussels raid for Salah Abdeslam https://t.co/eTjLhrScHr pic.twitter.com/WByeS8kGy8 — BBC Newsbeat (@BBCNewsbeat) March 18, 2016 Abdeslam was injured and captured during a raid by police officials in Molenbeek in Brussels on Friday. The capture of Abdeslam was somewhat unexpected. Officials were surprised to find his fingerprints in a raid on a Brussels home Tuesday, where two suspects reportedly escaped. The New York Times has more: The raid on Tuesday was not an attempt to capture Mr. Abdeslam. The authorities had targeted the home, on the Rue du Dries in the Forest section of Brussels, as part of an effort to collect additional intelligence. Over the past [...]