More Arrests Made in Brussels Police Operation

Belgian police arrested three more people on Friday as investigations into Tuesday’s suicide bombings by Islamist militants in Brussels threw up more links to killings in Paris last year.

The federal prosecutor’s office said the operation was connected to the arrest in Paris on Thursday of an extremist convicted in Belgium last year and suspected of plotting a new attack.

Nine people in total have been arrested since Thursday in Belgium and two in Germany, as European authorities swoop on Daesh (ISIL) militants they link both to the Brussels bombings that killed 31 people and to the attacks in Paris last November that killed 130.