Salah Abdeslam

Two explosions heard at Brussels airport before 8am local time with passengers evacuating the terminal.

An hour later, explosions hit Maalbeek metro station, close to the EU institutions, while the metro system and airport have both been closed.

The prime surviving suspect in the Paris attacks may have been plotting more operations with the help of a weapons cache and a network of associates, Belgium's Foreign Minister Didier Reynders said on March 20. 

The prime surviving suspect for the Nov. 13, 2015 Paris attacks planned to blow himself up at a sports stadium with fellow Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militants but changed his mind, he told Belgian investigators on March 19. 

Salah Abdeslam, chief suspect in last year's November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris, had planned to blow himself up at Stade de France but changed his mind.

Abdeslam admitted this during interrogation by Belgian investigators on Saturday, a day after his detention in the Brussels neigbourhood of Molenbeek on Friday.

Salah Abdeslam, suspected of involvement in the deadly November 13 attacks in Paris, has been arrested in a raid in Brussels, international media report.

Abdeslam, 26, has been wounded in the leg during an operation in the Molenbeek area in Brussels.

The jihadist attacks in November claimed the lives of 130 people.

Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam has been wounded in the leg and arrested in a police raid in the Molenbeek area of Brussels.

“We got him,” the Belgian secretary of state for asylum and migration tweeted, confirming reports of Belgian media that claimed that Abdeslam had been caught alive.

The anti-terrorist operation in the Belgian capital, which began on Tuesday, is continuing on Wednesday.

Belgian authorities in cooperation with French police are conducting a manhunt for suspects linked to last year's November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris.

Belgian and French police launched together a huge manhunt for two suspects in Brussels after gunmen opened fire wounding four officers, during an anti-terror operation linked to the Paris attacks.

A video published on Jan. 24 by the media centre of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) purported to show images and last statements of nine of the people who took part in the Paris attacks that killed 130 people on Nov. 13.

Belgian police have found three belts for possible use in suicide attacks, traces of explosives and a fingerprint of wanted Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam at a Brussels flat, prosecutors said Jan. 8.