GETTY Brussels police have carried out raids across the city

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Officers said they believe at least one man is on the run as they fear another attack after the raids in the Anderlecht area of Brussels Police found guns, ammunition and police uniforms as they raided six locations and charged two suspected militants with terror-related offences. Police charged brothers Akim Saouti, 40 and Khalid Saouti, 37, with terrorism related offences on Wednesday.

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We fear that they will feel driven into a corner after the raids The federal prosecutors’ officer

It is thought the two men are the brothers of Said Saouti, who was sentenced to six years in prison in 2016 for supporting Islamic State (ISIS) and recruiting people to join the terror group. A police spokesman said an attack could not be ruled out as the authorities fear the discovery of the store of guns and uniforms could provoke an attack similar to the bombing atrocity in Brussels last year.

GETTY Police carried out searches at the man's house who set off a bomb at Brussels Central Station

Eric Van der Sypt, spokesman for the federal prosecutors’ officer, said: “We’re still searching for various terror suspects after last night’s raids. “We fear that they will feel driven into a corner after the raids. "We’re also afraid of the same reaction as March 22, 2016.” Police said they were not able to exclude a “similar scenario as the one of March 22, 2016 Brussels attacks”.

GETTY 33 people were killed in the Brussels attack of 2016

In the Brussels attack, 32 civilians and two perpetrators were killed and 300 people were injured when three suicide bombers carried out co-ordinated attacks at Brussels Airport and at Maalbeek metro station in the centre of the capital. The attack occurred after police uncovered a weapons stash as they were hunting an ISIS cell linked to attacks in Paris the year before.