2 terror suspects killed, 7 arrested in raid targeting Paris attack mastermind

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Seven terror suspects were arrested Wednesday morning and two others were killed, including a woman wearing a suicide vest who blew herself up, after police stormed a suburban Paris apartment targeting the alleged mastermind of last Friday's massacre in the French capital.

 

Government spokesman Stephane Le Foll said just before noon (6 a.m. EST) that "the operation is over", more than seven hours after it began. The fate of the suspected attacks planner, 27-year-old Begian ISIS militant Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was unclear. Police said a security perimeter around the building in Saint-Denis, north of central Paris, remained in place.

 

Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins and French Interior Minister Bernard Cazenueve told reporters that information collected from tapped telephone conversations, surveillance and witness accounts led authorities to believe that Abaaoud was hiding out at the apartment.

 

A senior police official, who was informed routinely about the operation, told the Associated Press scores of police stormed the building and were met with unexpectedly violent resistance. Molins said five people were arrested in the apartment, while two others were arrested nearby. The prosecutor said the identities of those arrested and killed were still being verified.

 

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