At least
one other suspect is believed to be holed up in a building in the Molenbeek
area and the raid is ongoing.
Abdeslam,
who had been on the run since the attacks in November, was wounded in the leg
as police moved in on a flat in the Molenbeek area.
Dramatic
footage shows a man, thought to be Abdeslam, being bundled into a police car
after a volley of gunfire.
Abdeslam's
fingerprints were found in a flat in the southern Forest suburb of Brussels that was raided
on Tuesday, although prosecutors said the prints could not be dated.
One man -
identified as Algerian national Mohamed Belkaid and linked to the Paris attacks - was shot
dead in Tuesday's raid.
Officials
said at the time they believed as many as two other suspects may have escaped.
The man
killed on Tuesday, Belkaid, is believed to have used the a false ID in the name
of Samir Bouzid, which was used during to cross the border between Austria and
Hungary with Abdeslam and another man last September, the Belgian prosecutor's
office said.
The false
ID was also used four days after the Paris
attacks at a Western Union office in Brussels to
transfer money to Hasna
Aitboulahcen, who Belgian prosecutors say was the niece of the suspected
ringleader of the Paris
attacks,Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
Both
Abaaoud and Aitboulahcen died during a police raid on a flat in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis . days
after the Paris
attacks.
Abdeslam, a
26-year-old French national born in Brussels ,
had lived in Molenbeek before the 13 November attacks.
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