BRUSSELS—Security remained heightened in Brussels, Belgium on Friday after two were killed and one injured in police raids in eastern Belgium on Thursday. The country’s security alert was raised to level three out of four.
On Friday, raids continued in eastern Belgium and other parts of Brussels as well as Germany and France. Thirteen people were detained in Belgium, which has the most number of citizens per capita fighting with terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq, security officials believe.
Jewish schools remained closed throughout Friday in Antwerp and Brussels because of a tip-off to police that they may be targeted, according to Jewish news website Joods Actueel.
The Prime Minister of Belgium, Charles Michel, said in a broadcast statement on Friday that the situation is under control “for the moment.”
Regarding the police intervention on Thursday in Verviers, an eastern city 70 miles from Brussels, he stated that the operation “stopped activity of a terrorist cell.”
