A Young Woman Blew Herself Up During A Police Operation In Paris. Here Are The Details
Heavy gunfire and explosions rocked the northern Paris suburb of St.-Denis on Wednesday as the French police raided an apartment building, looking for the Belgian militant suspected of masterminding the Paris terrorist attacks.
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Earlier on Wednesday, a young woman — said to a relative of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the alleged mastermind of Friday's gun and bomb attacks in Paris which killed more than 120 people — detonated a bomb, killing herself, as French security forces carried out raids in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, the BBC reported
Police officers at the scene of a raid in St.-Denis, north of Paris, on Wednesday. The raid was aimed at detaining a Belgian militant suspected of organizing the attacks in Paris on Friday that killed 129 people.
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Additionally, a suspect was shot dead, while 7 arrests were made
The police fired more than 5,000 rounds of ammunition
The raid was so intense that the building was at risk of collapse; workers had to shore it up to prevent it falling, the NYT reported
The ferocity of the fighting at the flat could be seen in the impacts on the wall afterwards.
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5 members of the RAID police anti-terrorism unit were injured while a RAID "assault dog", a 7-year-old Belgian Shepherd called Diesel, was "killed by terrorists," the French national police tweeted
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