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Belgian prosecutors say they have arrested 16 people in raids Sunday night, after the city of Brussels spent the second day in a row on high alert.

Twenty-two raids were mounted, the prosecutors said — most in Brussels, and several south of the city. No explosives or firearms were recovered in the arrests, prosecutors say, and fugitive Salah Abdeslam, a suspect in the Paris attacks, was not among those arrested.

, the Belgian capital has been essentially shut down since Saturday, after authorities said they received "concrete information" of a terrorist plot.


, the country's Crisis Center said the latest intelligence still points to a "serious and immediate threat." And after officials met on Sunday, they decided to close schools and universities on Monday. The metro will remain closed for a third day in a row.


Authorities fear that terrorists may be planning a Paris-style attack in Brussels.

NPR's Dina Temple-Raston reports that the rest of Belgium will remain on a lower state of alert.

"There will be a reassessment tomorrow afternoon, Prime Minister Charles Michel said," Dina reports.

Reporting from Paris, NPR's Peter Kenyon reports that the network of attackers may extend to Turkey. He filed this report for our Newscast unit:

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Belgium said it would review its heightened security posture on Sunday. The country was essentially locked down on Saturday after authorities said they had "concrete information" of a terrorist plot.

Brussels remains on 'high alert' for a second day

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