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BUDAPEST, Hungary — Salah Abdeslam, a fugitive suspected in the deadly attacks in Paris, was at the main Budapest train station before mid-September and left with men who had been travelling amid a wave of asylum-seekers trying to enter Europe, Hungarian officials said Thursday.

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In Belgium, meanwhile, two more suspects in the Paris attacks were taken into custody facing terrorism charges. In all, Belgium now has eight suspects behind bars who are linked to the Paris attacks or to a possible attack in Brussels.

Janos Lazar, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s chief of staff, said at a news conference Thursday that the Hungarian secret services had confirmed information about Abdeslam’s travels they had received from foreign agencies. He said the secret services did not have this information at the time of the Nov. 13 Paris attacks nor as the Budapest train station became a hotspot last summer during Europe’s migrant crisis.

While Lazar did not mention Abdeslam by name, his identity was confirmed to The Associated Press by a government spokesman who spoke on condition of anonymity due to the sensitivity of the information.

According to Lazar, the Paris fugitive was at the Keleti Railway terminal in Budapest, where he recruited young men who were refusing to register with Hungarian authorities, and later left the country with them. He said he was confirming press accounts, which had reported that Abdeslam left with two men. Lazar did not give a specific date when Abdeslam was seen.