DHAKA: Belgian police have arrested 13 people during a dozen raids overnight, foiling a plot to kill police officers in public roads and in police stations.

The prosecutors have said this that reports the Aljazeera.

Two suspects were shot dead during a gun battle during one of the police raids in the eastern town of Verviers on Thursday night.

“The group was on the verge of carrying out terrorist attacks to kill police officers in public roads and in police stations,” spokesman Eric Van der Sijpt told a news conference on Friday.

Police found Kalashnikov assault rifles, explosives, ammunition and communications equipment - along with police uniforms that could have been used for the plot, he said.

Belgium will also seek the extradition of two Belgian suspects from France, although there is no link seen with last week’s Paris attacks, prosecutors said.

France’s Prime Minister Manuel Valls also confirmed that there was no ‘direct link’ between anti-terror raids in Belgium and last week’s attacks in Paris.

BDST: 2016 HRS, JAN 16, 2015