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After 7-hour raid and 5000 rounds of gunfire, Paris hunt down ends

After 7-hour raid and 5000 rounds of gunfire, Paris hunt down ends

By :  DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-11-18 07:27 GMT
The fate of the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was unknown after a massive police raid in a suburb of the city that left at least two dead, including a female suicide bomber.
Saint-Denis is one of France's most historic places. French kings were crowned and buried through the centuries in its famed basilica.
Police cordoned off the area nearby, including a pedestrian zone lined with shops and 19th-century apartment buildings. Riot police cleared people from the streets, pointing guns at curious residents to move them off the roads.
French authorities had previously said that at least eight people were directly involved in the bloodshed: seven who died in the attacks and one who got away and slipped across the border to Belgium.
Authorities believe there may still be someone still hiding in an apartment. A loud bang rang out in the streets adjacent to the building around the time of the latest arrests.
Police also carried out raids in southwestern France, in Ariege, Toulouse and the department of the Haute-Garonne.
The Paris police department says officers have exchanged gunfire with the suspects and several police have been injured.
Police say anti-terrorist officers are raiding an apartment in a north Paris suburb where several men are holed up.
Police say several people are holed up in an apartment and several police have been injured in an operation that has lasted at least three hours on Wednesday morning.
It is still not clear if the 28-year-old Abaaoud, a member of the Islamic State jihadist group was one of two to four people thought to be inside the apartment in Saint Denis that police swooped on.
At least seven explosions were heard at the scene of a police standoff with suspects in last week's deadly Paris attacks.
Reports say another suspect has also been killed among the three dead so far. The identity of the third has not been disclosed. The French security carried out massive raids in the suburbs of St Denis since dawn and the operation is still underway.
A suspected woman is reported to have blown herself up with a suicide belt during operations in a Paris suburb to hunt down Paris attacks mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
Police rained more than 5,000 rounds of ammunition on the building after terrified residents living in the area near the Stade de France stadium were evacuated.
At least two people were killed -- a woman thought to have blown herself up with a suicide vest and another body that was found riddled with bullets, the prosecutor said.
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said the raid had thwarted a "team of terrorists that... could have struck".
Intelligence led investigators to believe the Belgian suspect was in an apartment in Saint-Denis to the north of Paris, triggering a ferocious seven-hour shootout there with police that began before dawn.
After 7-hour raid and 5000 rounds of gunfire, Paris hunt down ends

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