Amelia Jenne

BRUSSELS — A friend of Salah Abdeslam, the man suspected of being the eighth perpetrator of Friday's deadly attacks in Paris who is currently on the run, has told The Independent he could "never, ever, ever have imagined it could be the same person [he] knew". Abdel Ben Alal, a 27-year-old deliveryman who grew up in the Molenbeek neighborhood of Brussels said "he was someone who studied hard and who was well educated. We went to the same school and played football together".

London - “Let's go!” In a split second, three childhood friends made the heart-stopping decision to charge the length of a train carriage to attack a gunman armed with an AK-47 who had opened fire on passengers. Their heroic intervention, which took place on the Amsterdam-Paris express, appears to have averted a horrifying massacre. Shortly after the gunman, believed to be a 26-year-old Moroccan man, emerged from the toilet inside carriage 12, the shooting began.