Fingerprints of Paris attack suspect found in Brussels flat

The fingerprints of Paris attack suspect Salah Abdeslam have been found in a Brussels flat raided earlier this week, media reports claim.

Belgian state broadcaster RTBF says Abdeslam may have escaped during Tuesday's police raid, which was linked to last November’s Paris attacks that left some 130 victims. During the raid one suspect was shot dead.

Abdeslam, a French national born in Brussels, has been the subject of a massive manhunt since the attacks which were claimed by Islamic State militants.

Abdeslam, is a key suspect who is believed to have returned to Belgium immediately after the attacks, in which his brother brother Brahim blew himself up. then, officials have also identified most of the alleged assailants, with most of the suspects dying either during the attacks or in subsequent police raids.

An additional 11 people have been arrested and charged in Belgium in connection with the killings, and another eight are still in detention.

"We can confirm that fingerprints of Salah Abdeslam were found in the apartment," the BBC reports Eric Van Der Sypt, spokesman for Belgian federal prosecutors saying.

Other media outlets have also reported that Abdeslam's DNA had also been found in the flat, but prosecutors did not confirm the news yet.

The raid on a flat in the southern Brussels district of Forest on Tuesday, left four officers wounded, and the suspect who was shot dead was later identified as Algerian national Mohamed Belkaid. Belkaid was killed by snipers while trying to fire at police from an apartment window.

Officials said Belkaid had been living in Belgium illegally and he was not known to the authorities except for one case of robbery.