Explosions and heavy gunfire were heard in Paris as armed police searching for suspects from Friday's attacks raided a flat in the suburb of Saint Denis.
Two people were killed in the raid, including a female suspect who blew herself up with a suicide belt. Seven people have been arrested, police say.
A government spokesman has confirmed the operation has ended.
The
focus of the raid is said to be the alleged mastermind of Friday's attacks that
killed 129 people.
Abdelhamid
Abaaoud, a 27-year-old Belgian of Moroccan origin, was originally suspected of organizing
Friday's attacks from Syria.
But
this has not been confirmed.
Roads
were blocked off around Rue de la Republique in Saint Denis, in the same
district as the Stade de France where suicide attackers detonated bombs on
Friday.
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Truckloads
of soldiers joined armed police at the scene as the operation got under way at
04:20 local time (03.20 GMT).
"I've
been hearing gunshots continuously, like fireworks... There have been some
breaks but... to me it sounds like continuous gunshots," one resident,
Benson Hoi, told the BBC earlier.
Another
witness, Amine Guizani, told the Associated Press he heard the sounds of
grenades and automatic gunfire.
"They
were shooting for an hour, non-stop. There were grenades. It was going,
stopping, Kalashnikovs, Starting again," he said.
At
least five people were believed to have been in the targeted third floor flat,
French media report.
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