Schools and metro reopen in Brussels

  25 November 2015    Read: 558
Schools and metro reopen in Brussels
The Brussels metro and schools are due to reopen after they were shut four days ago in a security crackdown following the Paris attacks.
But the Belgian capital remains on the highest alert level, with hundreds of armed police and soldiers on patrol. Authorities fear Paris-style attacks may be carried out, as at least one Paris gunman had lived in Brussels.

France says 130 people died in a series of attacks in Paris. At least one suspected attacker is still at large. The so-called Islamic State (IS) group says it carried out the attacks.

Five people have been charged in Belgium with terrorism offences in connection with the attacks in the neighbouring country.
In Brussels, public transport was due to start running again from 06:00 (GMT) though some metro lines will remain closed.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected ringleader who was killed in police raids in the Parisian suburb of Saint Denis, was near the Bataclan theatre during a deadly siege there, it has emerged.

French officials say mobile phone data also show he returned to cafes and restaurants targeted in the attacks. They say there is evidence that Abaaoud was planning an attack on the La Defense business district.

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