Timeline from Paris to Brussels

Oct 2015: Belgian Federal Police receive details of more than 80 suspected terrorists living in Molenbeek district of Brussels. List includes Abdelhamid Abaaoud

Nov 13: Coordinated attacks in Paris kill 130 people. Abaaoud named as ringleader

Nov 14: Paris attacker Salah Abdeslam travels to Brussels and disappears. Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon warns that Molenbeek is home to Paris attackers

Nov 18: Abaaoud killed in shootout with police in Saint-Denis suburb of Paris

Nov 21: Brussels put under five-day lockdown as 1,000 police search for Abdeslam

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DEC

Dec 21: Belgian police detain six people in alleged plot to target Brussels on New Year’s Eve

JAN

Jan 16, 2016: 15 suspected Islamist militants arrested

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MAR

Mar 15: Mohammed Belkaid – Algerian gunman linked to Paris attacks – is shot dead by police sniper in raid in Forest suburb of Brussels

Mar 18: Salah Abdeslam captured alive in police raid in Molenbeek. Interior Minister warns of likely counter-attack following arrest

Mar 22: Coordinated bomb attacks kill 34 people and injure nearly 200 at Brussels Zaventem Airport and Maelbeek metro station

Mar 23: Two airport suicide bombers named as brothers Khalid and Brahim
el-Bakraoui. Third man seen on CCTV is believed to be Najim Laachraoui – alleged bomb-maker whose DNA was found on two suicide belts used in Paris attacks

Sources: RTBF, La Derniere Heure, france24.com

Pictures: Associated Press, Belgium Federal Police