Belgium anti-terror raid: 'Suspects started firing at police'

Two people have been killed in an anti-terror operation in eastern Belgium, officials have said.

Prosecutors said a third person was wounded in the raid in the town of Verviers.

A spokesman for the federal prosecutor's office in Brussels, Thierry Werts, told a news conference how armed police officers came under fire.

No police or members of the public were harmed, he added.

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