Belgium has maintained the highest security alert for Brussels with the metro system and schools to reopen only on Wednesday after authorities said there was an imminent threat of a Paris-style attack in the Belgian capital.
The alert level for Brussels would remain at the highest level four while in the rest of the country it would stay at three.
"We are still confronted with the threat we were facing yesterday," Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel told a news conference. He said potential targets remained shopping malls, shopping streets and public transport.
"We want progressively to return to normality.... Schools in Brussels will open on Wednesday and the metro on Wednesday as well. For the metro it could be in a progressive way," he said.
Belgian prosecutors on Monday said they have charged a man with participating in the Paris attacks in an ongoing investigation in Brussels, which is currently on maximum security alert.
He is being held in custody. Another 15 people who were arrested in an operation on Sunday night have been released after being questioned, the Federal Prosecutor's Office said in a statement.
Two of five people detained earlier on Monday were also released, it said.
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