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Paris Shooting: One terror suspect turns himself in to Belgian authorities

French authorities are searching the dead gunman's house and have taken three family members into custody.

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French police leave the house of the gunman killed in a shootout with police on the Champs Elysees Avenue, in the Paris suburb of Chelles, France, April 21, 2017.
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A man that Belgian authorities had flagged to their French counterparts over possible involvement in Thursday's Paris shootings turned himself into police in Belgium's northern city of Antwerp, news agency Belga said on Friday.

Speaking on France's Europe 1 radio after the shootout on the Champs Elysees shopping street, French Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre-Henry Brandet said a second man had been identified by Belgian security officials and brought to the attention of French authorities.

The identity of a man responsible for a shooting in central Paris remains unclear and there is no indication he was Belgian, Belgium's federal prosecutors said on Friday.

Islamic State militants claimed responsibility for Thursday's shooting, in which a French policeman was shot dead, via its Amaq news agency, naming the attacker as Abu Yousif al-Belgiki.

"Al-Belgiki means the Belgian but it is a very vague identity," a spokesman for Belgium's federal prosecutor said, adding he had no indication the gunman was from Belgium.

Later, Belgian interior minister Jan Jambon told public broadcaster VRT that the man responsible for a shootout in central Paris on Thursday was a French national. "The investigation is continuing. What we can confirm, is that the perpetrator was a French national," said Jambon.

According to a report in CNN, Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins said that he will reveal the shooter's identity on Friday. The report also says, that French officers are searching the gunman's residence in Chelles, Seine-et-Marne, a Paris suburb, and are trying to determine if he had accomplices.

French police have taken into custody three family members of the gunman.

(With Agencies Inputs)

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