Key Paris attacks suspect Mohamed Abrini was arrested along with four other people in a series of raids Friday also linked to the deadly Brussels airport and metro bombings, the federal prosecutor's office said. "Mohamed Abrini was arrested in Anderlecht," a spokesman told a news conference, confirming earlier reports that he was tracked down in the gritty Brussels neighbourhood.

Abrini, a Belgian of Moroccan origin, was seen at a petrol station north of Paris two days before the attacks with other top suspect Salah Abdeslam, who drove one of the vehicles used in the November 13 assaults across Paris that killed 130 people. Abdeslam, whose brother Brahim blew himself up in Paris, fled back to Brussels immediately afterwards and was finally captured March 18 in the capital, not far from his family's home in the Molenbeek district. The spokesman said Abrini was arrested along with two other unidentified people.

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