Belgian police have detained three people in connection with the bloody terrorist attacks in neighbouring France, for which the Islamic State extremist group claims responsibility.
Investigators were led to the neighbourhood of Molenbeek in the Belgian capital Brussels after a car rented by a French citizen living in Belgium was found near the Bataclan concert hall in Paris, where 89 people were killed, French prosecutor Francois Molins said on Saturday.
The renter of the car was intercepted at Belgian border control, on board another vehicle along with two other people residing in Brussels, Molins said.
The Belga news agency quoting Belgian prosecutors however reported that three people were taken into custody during the actual raids in Molenbeek, and Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel told broadcaster RTL that one of these people had been in Paris on Friday night.
Details on the suspects' identities were not immediately available.
Belgian prosecutors have launched their own terrorism investigation in connection with the attacks in Paris, which have so far left 129 people dead and another 352 injured, 99 of them seriously, Molins told journalists in Paris.
According to the Belgian newspaper La Derniere Heure, three of the Paris attackers stemmed from Molenbeek.
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