Terror Threat Level In Brussels Lowered

Belgium has lowered the security threat level in Brussels after nearly a week on maximum alert in the wake of the Paris terror attacks.

The country's Threat Analysis Coordination Agency reduced the threat level from four to three, a spokesman for the crisis centre said.

A level three alert - which brings Brussels in line with the rest of Belgium - means there is a "serious, possible and probable" threat of a terror strike.

Belgium raised its terror alert to level three immediately after the 13 November attacks in Paris, which killed 130 people.

A week later the capital was put on maximum alert as police searched for a Belgian suspect, as well as accomplices who were suspected of planning similar attacks in Brussels.

Police have launched several raids in Belgium over the past fortnight and authorities have charged five people with terrorism offences linked to the Paris attacks.

Belgium's state prosecutor has announced an international arrest warrant for Mohamed Abrini , who was seen with prime suspect Salah Abdeslam two days before the Paris attacks.

Abdeslam is suspected of playing at least a logistical role in the co-ordinated shootings and suicide bombings in Paris, but has so far evaded police capture.

The Brussels metro service re opened on Wednesday with extra police and security services deployed to guard the network.

The reduced terror threat in Belgium comes as German police commando units arrested two people in Berlin on suspicion of planning a terror attack.

Police searched a mosque in the city's west before finding the suspects at a separate location in Berlin's south.

Officers have also sealed off an area were a suspicious car was discovered, a police spokesman said.