Wanted Terrorist Abandons Suicide Belt

Salah Abdeslam is suspected of playing at least a logistical role in the coordinated shooting and suicide bombings on 13 November and police say phone location data places him in Montrouge that evening.

French police hunting Paris terror suspect Salah Abdeslam have recovered a suspected suicide belt near where he is thought to have been on the night of the attacks.

Suicide belt found in a dustbin in the Paris suburb of Montrouge has "the same configuration" as suicide belts used by others involved in the attacks, according to a police source.

It comes as the 26-year-old fugitive's brother Mohamed suggested Abdeslam may have decided not to go ahead with the attack at the last moment.

Another theory put forward by police is that Abdeslam, if he was involved in the attacks, may have had a technical problem with his belt.

Abdeslam's other brother, 31-year-old Brahim, died after his suicide belt exploded outside a café during the attacks, injuring 15 people.

The pair from Belgium had a heated argument the night before the massacres, according to friends living in Brussels.

One friend told television channel France 2 the disagreement appeared to be over money.

"I heard an argument, a massive argument," he said.