French ID all 129 victims of the Paris attacks

Police believe Abaaoud was in the apartment with up to five other heavily armed people. “It was aimed at neutralizing during this night the terrorists who were accommodated in Saint Denis and who were in connection with the authors of the attacks and odious crimes of Friday night”. He said the raid was launched after information from tapped telephone conversations, surveillance and witness accounts indicated that Abaaoud might be in a safe house in the north Paris suburb of Saint-Denis.

She told Europe 1 radio that she heard the people above her talking to each other, running around and reloading their guns.

Seven arrests were made in the course of the raids in Saint-Denis.

News of a second unidentified terrorist thought to be directly involved in the Paris atrocity emerged after CCTV indicated there were three extremists involved in the attack on bars in the city.

The siege ended with two dead and seven suspects in custody; according to the AP, the dead include a woman “who blew herself up with an explosive vest and a man hit by projectiles and grenades”.

One person remained holed up inside the apartment.

All seven of the dead terrorists have been identified, the government said in a statement.

A police source said three suspects had been arrested so far with security forces still trying to “neutralize” two more at the scene close to the Stade de France stadium which was one of the targets of last Friday’s attacks.

Paris: Shooting broke out in northern Paris during a dawn raid by police investigating the Paris attacks, sources said on Wednesday, as police hunted those behind the attacks that claimed 129 lives in the French capital. Neighborhood resident Fabien Crombe said on BFM television that gunshots have repeatedly broken out since the police operation began, punctuated by silence and the sound of sirens. Three police officers were wounded, the source said.

Five officers were injured in the incident and a police dog was killed, police reported. A few of those arrested were pulled from the rubble, he said, and body parts found there were being DNA tested.

One of the first difficulties that the police encountered was that the door to the apartment was reinforced.

President Francois Hollande of France addressed the police action during a meeting with French mayors.

One of the nine suspected massacre shooters Salah Abdeslam, 26, who has been subject to an global manhunt focussed on Belgium, may also be inside.

France and Russia have vowed merciless retaliation for the Paris attacks and last month’s bombing of a Russian airliner, also claimed by ISIL, which have galvanised worldwide resolve to destroy the group and end Syria’s more than four-year civil war.