Belgian Police Shoot Man Carrying Bomb!

Belgian police shot and wounded a man carrying a backpack loaded with explosives in Brussels today and also nabbed three more suspects in connection with Tuesday’s deadly jihadist attack.

“I can confirm a police operation targeting a person who was intercepted by police and suffered a slight leg injury,” said Bernard  Clerfayt, mayor of the Schaerbeek neighborhood where the confrontation took place.

Police shot the suspect in the leg after he failed to respond to their orders, according to national broadcaster RTBF, which also reported the man had an 8-year-old girl with him.

“I heard two explosions. They were shooting. I opened the window and saw a man lying near the tram stop,” a witness told “La Libre” newspaper. “The police ordered him to show his hands, remove his jacket. They said that if he did not comply, they would use their weapons.” The injured suspect was checked by a bomb-sniffing robot and then police took him into custody.

Mayor Clerfayt said the man was connected to the Brussels attack. The suspect also was linked to the arrest of 34-year-old Frenchman Reda Kriket in Paris yesterday. Kriket, who was wanted since January on suspicion of links to terrorism, was found with heavy weapons and explosives in his apartment.

Also today, Belgian police detained three men — one of whom recently traveled to Iraq — and were looking for explosives after evacuating a hotel Dinant, 60 miles south of the capital, Mayor Richard Fournaux said. The Belgian federal prosecutor’s office reported that three of those detained since Thursday have been released, and three are being held and face possible charges, according to Reuters.