Two suspects killed as scores of police raid property in Paris suburb
Two suspects in the Paris attacks have been killed during a raid in a suburb of the French capital, police said.
A third person has also been killed. It is not yet certain if it was a passer by or a police officer.
A woman was one of the two people killed as scores of officers raided a property in the northern suburb of Saint-Denis, officials said.
It came as a massive police operation targeted Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected mastermind of last week’s terror attacks that killed at least 129 people.
Authorities believe they traced Abaaoud to an apartment in Saint-Denis along with up to five other heavily armed people.
At least seven explosions were heard at the scene of the stand-off.
An official with the Paris police department said two people have been detained and two police officers injured in the stand-off in Saint-Denis.
Authorities in Saint-Denis earlier evacuated residents from the apartment building where the suspects were holed up.
The building is in rue du Cornillon, in the heart of the historic multicultural area north of the city centre.
The site is about a mile from the Stade de France national stadium, where three suicide bombers blew themselves up on Friday during a football friendly with President Francois Hollande in attendance.
The woman who was killed was wearing a suicide vest, police said.
