Islamic State flag found at Brussels shoot out scene: prosecutor

3/16/2016 10:10:47 AM

(MENAFN- The Peninsula) Reporters stand in front of an apartment (C) in the Brussels district of Forest where a gunman was shot dead by Belgian police on Tuesday after a raid on the apartment linked to investigations into November's Islamist attacks in Paris March 16 2016. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

Brussels:The suspect gunned down in a shootout with Belgian police on Tuesday was found with an Islamic State flag a Kalashnikov rifle and a book of extremist literature next to his body Belgian prosecutors said on Wednesday.

Thierry Werts a spokesman for anti-terror prosecutors told a press conference that the man had been identified as Belcaid Mohammed an Algerian national who was was illegally in Belgium.

AFP

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