A suspected jihadist group targeted in a major anti-terror raid on Thursday had been planning to kill policemen in the street and at police stations, Belgian prosecutors say.
The planned attacks were imminent, they said, adding that two suspects shot dead in Verviers during the raids were still being identified.
Searches were also carried out overnight in the Brussels area.
Thirteen suspects have been arrested, while two more were arrested in France.
Guns, munitions and explosives, as well as police uniforms and a large amount of money, were seized during the raids, prosecution spokesman Thierry Werts told reporters.
Eric Van Der Sypt, another spokesman, added: "The investigation... has shown that these people had the intention to kill several policemen in the street and at police commissariats [police stations].
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Belgian Federal Prosecutor Thierry Werts: "A number of weapons were discovered"
"The operation was meant to dismantle a terrorist cell... but also the logistics network behind it," he said.
However, he added that he could not confirm that everyone in the jihadist group had been arrested.
Protective measures would be put in place at police buildings, he said.
No link had been established with last week's attacks in Paris, Mr Van Der Sypt said, adding that Belgium would seek the extradition of the two suspects in France.
"I can confirm that we started this investigation before the attacks in Paris," he said.
Last week, gunmen in Paris attacked the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a kosher supermarket and police officers, killing 17 people in the French capital.
Schools closedGilles de Kerchove, a counter-terrorism co-ordinator for the EU, told the BBC that member states were already sharing "all the intelligence they have".
"The question is, can we optimise that even further?"
He said it was not clear whether the Paris attacks had been organised by terrorist groups "to trigger more attacks in Europe", adding that "that's a question we have to ask ourselves".
The terror threat level in Belgium has been raised to three - the second highest.
The suspects shot dead on Thursday had returned from Syria, police said. They had shot at police "for several minutes" before being killed, prosecutors added.
Belgian officials say more than 300 people have left Belgium to fight with Islamic militant groups in Syria and Iraq.
The country is thought to have the highest number of foreign fighters per capita in Europe who have taken part in fighting in Syria.
Some Jewish schools in Antwerp and Brussels were closed on Friday, after they were informed that they could be potential targets, Belgian newspaper Joods Actueel reported.
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