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Brussels remains on high alert as a major police operation continues following a raid linked to November's Islamist attacks in Paris.
As many as two suspects are thought to be on the run after police raided a flat in the suburb of Forest.
Four police officers were wounded and an armed suspect was shot dead in the street outside the apartment, the Belgian prosecutor's office said.
It also said the investigation was likely to continue through the night.
The raid was linked to last year's Paris attacks in which 130 people died. Islamic State (IS) militants have claimed the attacks.
French police also took part in Tuesday's operation. One of the officers wounded in the raid was a French policewoman, officials said.
The federal prosecutor's office said the police had gone to search an apartment in the southern suburb of Forest at about 15:00 (14:00GMT) local time.
"During this operation, one or several people opened fire on the police as they came through the door," it said in a statement.
Three officers were injured then and a fourth in a later exchange of gunfire, it said.
"A suspect armed with a Kalashnikov" was also killed, the statement said, at around 18:00 in the street outside the flat.
The dead suspect has not yet been identified. However, a prosecutor's spokesman had earlier ruled out it was Salah Abdeslam - one of two suspects still on the run after the 13 November attacks in Paris.
French police sources had said earlier that he was not the target of Tuesday's raid.
The operation brought the area - close to railway lines used by high-speed trains to London and Paris - to a standstill.
Two local schools and two kindergartens were in lockdown for several hours before being evacuated by police.
While the operation at the flat has finished, a police source told the BBC that their search was widening - and could possibly involve a second location.
The prosecutor's office said the investigation is "actively continuing, day and night" but gave no other details.
The BBC's Anna Holligan at the scene says a huge police presence remains, with heavily armed officers on the streets and helicopters hovering overhead.
She says it is still unclear how many, if any, suspects remain at large
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