The fingerprints of Paris attacks suspect Salah Abdeslam have been found in a flat raided by police in Brussels this week.
He was probably one of two people who evaded arrest during a shootout as the building was stormed, according to Belgian public broadcaster RTBF. But this was not confirmed by officials.
One Islamist gunman - an Algerian national - was shot dead by a police sniper at the scene.
In January, BFM TV released new CCTV images of Abdeslam on November 14
DNA belonging to the fugitive, who has been on the run since the 13 November attacks, was also reportedly discovered by Belgian officers during Tuesday's raid.
The flat was targeted because officers believed it was rented under the same false identity as a hideout used by the Paris attackers in the southern Belgian city of Charleroi.
Belgian prosecutors on Friday confirmed his fingerprints were found at the apartment in the Forest area of the city.
The 26-year-old Brussels-born Frenchman, is believed to have played a key logistical role in the attacks on the French capital in which 130 people were killed. His older brother Brahim was a suicide bomber.
The younger Abdeslam was driven back to Brussels from Paris hours later by two friends - Mohammed Amri and Hamza Attou.
The three men were stopped near the border by French police but then released, as Abdeslam had not yet been connected to the attacks.
Abdeslam arrived in Brussels on 14 November later and was met by someone else and then police admit they "lost him".
Since then he has been the subject of an international manhunt.
Responsibility for the attacks was claimed by extremists from the so-called Islamic State.
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