Paris attacker buried in Brussels
March 18, 2016 01:57
A suicide bomber who blew himself up in the Paris attacks was buried on Thursday in Brussels, as police pursued two suspected Islamic extremists who escaped a deadly raid this week.
Brahim Abdeslam, 31, was the brother of Salah Abdeslam, a key suspect in the November 13 carnage in the French capital which left 130 dead.
Salah fled Paris immediately afterwards, slipping back to their home city of Brussels and then disappearing.
An AFP report said another brother, Mohamed, along with five other men carried Brahim's coffin to the grave, followed by a cortege of some 20 people, friends or relatives and watched by several journalists.
Mohamed told the reporters: "You can watch and write your stories but please, out of respect, no photographs."
Another of the Paris attackers, Bilal Hadfi, was buried quietly in the same cemetery last week. With Belgium on continued high terror alert, police shot dead an Algerian national with suspected ties to the Islamic State group during a raid on Tuesday linked to the Paris attacks claimed by IS.
Brahim Abdeslam, 31, was the brother of Salah Abdeslam, a key suspect in the November 13 carnage in the French capital which left 130 dead.
Salah fled Paris immediately afterwards, slipping back to their home city of Brussels and then disappearing.
An AFP report said another brother, Mohamed, along with five other men carried Brahim's coffin to the grave, followed by a cortege of some 20 people, friends or relatives and watched by several journalists.
Mohamed told the reporters: "You can watch and write your stories but please, out of respect, no photographs."
Another of the Paris attackers, Bilal Hadfi, was buried quietly in the same cemetery last week. With Belgium on continued high terror alert, police shot dead an Algerian national with suspected ties to the Islamic State group during a raid on Tuesday linked to the Paris attacks claimed by IS.
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