Police have arrested 16 people in a series of late-night anti-terror raids in Belgium in their hunt for fugitive Paris suspect Salah Abdeslam.
Police mounted 19 raids in Molenbeek and other parts of Brussels and three in Charleroi in the country’s south on Sunday night.
Officers fired two shots at a car in Molenbeek during one operation, injuring a suspect who was then arrested.
The arrests came as Brussels headed into a third day of lockdown with the city’s terrorism alert staying at the highest possible level.
The threat level was raised early on Saturday as the government warned of a “serious and imminent” threat of coordinated gun and bomb attacks similar to the massacre in Paris.
"We fear an attack like in Paris, with several individuals, perhaps in several places," prime minister Charles Michel said after chairing a meeting of Belgium's National Security Council.
Federal prosecutor Eric Van Der Sypt said no firearms or explosives were found in the raids on Sunday night.
The operation came hours after the government announced the Brussels security measures would continue into Monday, with universities, schools and the city's metro system to remain shut.
The frantic search goes on for Salah Abdeslam, the 26-year-old from Brussels who is suspected of playing a key role in the Paris attacks which killed 130 people on November 13, and whose brother blew himself up during the atrocity.
He is known to have crossed into Belgium the day after the attacks and security forces fear he returned home to launch new attacks.
However, interior minister Jan Jambon has warned that the threat would not disappear if Abdeslam was found, because police are looking for several people in connection with a possible planned attack in Brussels.
