One of the alleged masterminds behind the Nov. 13, 2015, terror attacks in Paris, France, was shot in the leg and arrested by police during an anti-terror raid in Belgium on Friday.
Salah Abdeslam and two others were taken into custody in Brussels after a shootout with police, prompting Belgian government minister Theo Francken to tweet, "We got him."
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November's terror attack by the Islamic State group claimed 130 lives across Paris, with 89 perishing inside the Bataclan theater alone. Authorities quickly learned that Abdeslam's older brother blew himself up the night of the attacks, but they were unsure whether the fugitive escaped to Belgium.
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The four-month manhunt for Abdeslam likely included a big break on Tuesday when his fingerprints were found in an apartment during an anti-terror raid. A man identified as Mohamed Belkaid, 35, an Algerian national living illegally in Belgium, was killed by a police sniper and found with a Kalashnikov rifle, Reuters reported Friday.
An ISIS banner and a large cache of ammunition were also confiscated.
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Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel called Friday's arrests a "very important result in the battle for democracy," Fox News reported.
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