Todays Paris News: Paris attacks: the killing of two police target alleged plotter Abdul Hamid Abaaoud

Paris attacks

A suicide bomber blew herself up and another militant died on Wednesday when police raided an apartment in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis is seeking suspects in last week's attacks in the French capital.Three sources told Reuters the raid jihadist cell that was planning to launch an attack on the business district of Paris stopped, not the defense, after the coordinated bombings and shootings that killed 129 in all parts of the city said.Officials said the police were chasing Abdul Hamid Abaaoud, a Belgian Islamic militant accused of masterminding the massacre of November 13, but after more than nine hours of launch pre-dawn raid that it was not yet clear if they had found him.Officials said seven people were arrested in the operation, which began with a barrage of fire, including three people who were pulled from the apartment."It's impossible to tell you that he was arrested. We check it out in the process. We will do everything to determine who is who," the prosecutor said Francois Moulin in Paris at the end of the process.

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Mullane said the attack was ordered after phone taps and surveillance operations led the police to believe that Abaaoud may be in Saint-Denis, near the football stadium, which was the site of one of the attacks that hit Paris last week.Investigators believe that the appointment of the worst atrocities in France since World War II in the movement of Syria, with Islamist cells in Belgium and neighboring organize the chaos.He spoke the local population of the fear and panic when the fire began in Saint-Denis before 04:30 local time."We could see the bullets fly and lasers out of the window. There were explosions. You could feel the whole building shake," said Sabreen, a neighbor in the basement of the apartment that was raided.She told Europe 1 radio that I heard people above talking to each other, their weapons and re-runs. Another local, Sanoko Abdulai process that gathered pace, a young woman detonated an explosion... And said it was a bomb, that's for sure. He said that the police did not kill, she blew herself up," he told Reuters, without giving details.