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[h=4]Official: Fierce firefight in Paris suburbs thwarted new terror attack[/h]It was not immediately clear if the man who orchestrated Friday's attacks was nabbed.
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Heavily-armed French police conducted raids in the suburb of Saint-Denis, where the mastermind of the Paris attacks is thought to be holed up. A woman with a suicide bomb vest blew herself up. One man was killed; several others were arrested. AP
French soldiers and police work during a police raid in Saint-Denis on Nov. 18, 2015.(Photo: Peter Dejong, AP)
A fierce firefight with a<span style="color: Red;">*</span>band of suspected terrorists holed up in a suburban Paris apartment ended Wednesday<span style="color: Red;">*</span>with at least two suspects killed and an imminent attack thwarted, authorities<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said.
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said SWAT teams and other officers<span style="color: Red;">*</span>fired 5,000 rounds of ammunition in an hours-long assault that targeted<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 27,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>accused of orchestrating<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a series of attacks that killed at least 129 people<span style="color: Red;">*</span>in the French capital<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Friday.
Abaaoud was not arrested in the raid<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and the dead suspects have<span style="color: Red;">*</span>not yet been identified, Mollins said. Phone data and eyewitness statements led the manhunt to the apartment, he said. One of the dead was a<span style="color: Red;">*</span>female suicide bomber who detonated<span style="color: Red;">*</span>explosives as police closed in.
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Multiple media organizations, citing unnamed sources close to the French investigation,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said Abaaoud's cousin may have been<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the female suicide bomber. The Washington Post, citing two senior European intelligence officials,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said Abaaoud was killed in the raid.
At least five<span style="color: Red;">*</span>police officers were injured during the operation, which began about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday local time. A police dog named "Diesel" also was killed.
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Periodic gunfire and explosions were<span style="color: Red;">*</span>heard for several hours<span style="color: Red;">*</span>around<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Saint-Denis, a Paris suburb<span style="color: Red;">*</span>about 5 to 6<span style="color: Red;">*</span>miles from the city center where the operation took place. The apartment is about a mile from Stade de France<span style="color: Red;">*</span>stadium<span style="color: Red;">*</span>where three<span style="color: Red;">*</span>suicide bombers<span style="color: Red;">*</span>blew themselves<span style="color: Red;">*</span>up during Friday's attacks.
Residents of the working class area<span style="color: Red;">*</span>were<span style="color: Red;">*</span>evacuated and placed in shelters in the town hall, French journalist Djamel Mazi reported on Twitter.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Schools and shops were<span style="color: Red;">*</span>closed and residents were urged to remain indoors.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>No hostages were taken.
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Jawad Bendaoud, a<span style="color: Red;">*</span>man identified by French broadcaster BFMTV<span style="color: Red;">*</span>as the owner of an apartment on the street where the raid took place,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said he let some of the suspects take refuge in his home. "I didn't know they were terrorists," he said. "Someone asked me to put two people up for three days and I did them a favor."
Bendaoud was subsequently arrested.
“We tried to stop our children hearing the noise,” Farah Appane, who lives about 80 yards from where the raid took place, told the Associated Press. “My 19-month-old was crying. Our 8-year-old said ‘What is it? Are there more attacks?’ "
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Overnight raids<span style="color: Red;">*</span>netted 25 arrests and the seizure of 34 weapons, the French Interior Ministry reported. The ministry said more than 400 raids have resulted in 60 arrests since Friday's attacks.
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Seven attackers died in Friday's assaults, officials said.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>A manhunt also continued for at least one other suspect, Salah Abdeslam, who fled the city hours<span style="color: Red;">*</span>after the bloodbath.
The French government said Wednesday that all 129 victims of Friday's attacks had been identified. The attacks left more than 350<span style="color: Red;">*</span>wounded, 195 of whom remained in the hospital Wednesday,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>dozens of them in intensive care.
In an address to French mayors in Paris,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>President Francois Hollande said that the Islamic State<span style="color: Red;">*</span>— the militant group that claimed responsibility for Friday's<span style="color: Red;">*</span>attacks— was a grave threat to the entire world and that a large coalition was needed to counter its activities.
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Hollande said he will travel to Washington on Tuesday to hold talks with President Obama and to Moscow on Thursday for discussions with President Vladimir Putin. Charles de Gaulle, a French aircraft carrier, was on its way to the Middle East<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to support France's military operations in Syria, he added.
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