Two Suspects Dead In Paris Police Raid

Two suspects linked to Friday’s deadly attacks in Paris died after police raided an apartment in a northern suburb of the French capital, a prosecutor said, correcting an earlier report that said three were killed.

Paris’ prosecutor Francois Molins said a female suspect killed herself by detonating a vest rigged with explosives at start of the operation in Saint-Denis early on Wednesday.

A second suspect was shot by police, the prosecutor saidThe identity of the casualties was not immediately released. However, French media said the target of the operation was Belgian national Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a key suspect of the attacks, in which at least 129 people were killed Another suspect, Salah Abdeslam, was also said to be a target in the raids.

Heavily armed police were seen hauling away a naked man from the building at the centre of the raid in Saint-Denis.

Earlier, Molins said in a statement that three men holed up inside the apartment were arrested, while a man and woman were arrested near the location of the raid.

Three police officers and a passerby were wounded in an initial shootout at the apartment.

“The operation is still under way. It’s not over,” local member of parliament Mathieu Hanotin said on France Inter radio. “Everyone must stay indoors. There are still gunmen holed up in the apartment.”

A police source told Reuters news agency that several suspects had been arrested with security forces still trying to “neutralise” two more at the scene.

Source:Al Jazeera

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