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| Brussels museum killings: Man 'arrested in France' | |
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| A Frenchman has been arrested in Marseille over a shooting at the Jewish Museum in Brussels that left four people dead, reports say. | |
| Mehdi Nemmouche, 29, is being held on suspicion of murder and attempted murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise, sources told AFP. | Mehdi Nemmouche, 29, is being held on suspicion of murder and attempted murder in connection with a terrorist enterprise, sources told AFP. |
| He was reportedly carrying a Kalashnikov rifle and a handgun similar to the ones used in the May 24 attack. | He was reportedly carrying a Kalashnikov rifle and a handgun similar to the ones used in the May 24 attack. |
| Security was tightened at Jewish sites across Belgium following the killings. | Security was tightened at Jewish sites across Belgium following the killings. |
| Mr Nemmouche, who is believed to be from the northern French town of Roubaix, is also suspected of having links to Islamists militants fighting in Syria. | Mr Nemmouche, who is believed to be from the northern French town of Roubaix, is also suspected of having links to Islamists militants fighting in Syria. |
| He was arrested at the Saint-Charlies train station in the southern French city of Marseille on Friday on board a bus that was travelling from Amsterdam via Brussels, AFP news agency reports. | |
| Four people were killed when a gunman opened fire at the museum in the busy Sablon area of Brussels. They were an Israeli couple in their 50s, a French female volunteer and a Belgian employee of the museum. | |
| One person was detained after he drove away from the scene around the time of the attack, but he was later released. | |
| Belgium has a Jewish population of some 42,000, about half of whom live in the capital. |