REPORT: The man killed during a terror raid in Brussels had volunteered to be a suicide bomber for ISIS
A 35-year-old Algerian national who was killed by Belgium police during a raid in Brussels had volunteered to be a suicide bomber for Islamic State, Belgian news site VRT reports.
Mohamed Belkaid was killed on Tuesday during a raid by French and Belgian police linked to the Paris attacks last November.
Police found a Kalashnikov, a book on Salafism, and an ISIS flag in the flat were he hid, and VRT claims to have found Belkaid's name on one of the many thousands of ISIS documents handed in by a defector to German intelligence.
Thousands of forms which everyone joining ISIS must fill out were stolen from computers by a member wh fled after becoming disillusioned with the terror group.
VRT claim to have seen Belkaid's form and report that it showed he had been working with ISIS since April 2014 and had agreed to be a suicide bomber.
Four police officers were wounded during a raid in the Brussels suburb of Forest on Tuesday, which was linked to the Paris attacks of November, which killed 130 people and left hundreds more injured, but did not target the prime suspect still on the run, 26-year-old Frenchman Salah Abdeslam.
Police are still looking for two additional gunmen who attacked the police officers during Tuesday's incident.
Brussels, headquarters of the EU, has remained on high alert since the November 13 attacks on Paris, and was effectively on lockdown for a few days following the attack as it emerged that it was planned from the Belgian capital.
Belgian police have conducted over 100 raids since November and 23 people have been arrested in connection with the Paris attacks.