Belgium searching for two new suspects linked to Paris attacks

Brussels (dpa) - Belgian prosecutors on Friday asked the public for help in tracking down two new suspects in the November 13 terrorist attacks in Paris as they searched for men who had travelled to Hungary on false papers with Salah Abdeslam, a key suspect who is also on the run.The latest suspects bring to four the number of individuals still being sought in relation to the attacks, in which perpetrators armed with Kalashnikov rifles and suicide vests killed 130 people in restaurants, bars, a concert venue and a sports stadium.The two men pinpointed Friday had travelled to Budapest with Abdeslam in a rental car on September 9. The three were stopped for a border control, the Belgian state prosecution said in a statement. It was one of two trips to the Hungarian capital that Abdeslam undertook that month.His two companions on September 9 identified themselves with fake Belgian identity cards as Samir Bouzid and Soufiane Kayal. Their real names are not known.Kayal‘s false identity was also used to rent a house that was searched in connection with the Paris attacks.The identity card in the name of Bouzid was used four days after the Paris attacks to transfer 750 euros (801.50 dollars) to the niece of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the attacks‘ alleged mastermind, the prosecution said. He and his niece later died in a police raid on an apartment in the Paris suburb of St Denis.The police warned that the two new individuals being sought are "dangerous and probably armed" and told people not to intervene directly if they encountered either of them.A total of eight people have been placed under arrest in Belgium in connection with the Paris attacks. The country has also issued an arrest warrant for Mohamed Abrini, who was filmed with Abdeslam on November 11, driving a car that was later used in the Paris attacks.Also Friday, two raids were carried out in the Schaerbeek district of Brussels in relation to the terrorist attacks. No individuals were detained, the prosecution said.On Thursday, the Hungarian government had announced that one of the suspected terrorist masterminds had spent time there earlier this year without naming the individual.The man is believed to have "recruited" a group of refugees and left the country with them, Janos Lazar, head of Prime Minister Viktor Orban‘s office, told the official MTI news agency.