CNN has report that Gunfire and explosions shook the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis early Wednesday as heavily armed police stormed a building where suspects linked to Friday's deadly terrorist attacks were believed to be holed up.
Police blocked off roads before dawn Wednesday and told residents to stay inside in Saint-Denis, a diverse, working-class area that is home to the Stade de France sports stadium where three suicide bombings took place Friday.
The situation has been developing quickly, but as of mid-morning Paris time, three terrorist suspects were said by a police source to have been killed. One of them was a woman who blew herself up with a suicide belt, authorities said.
Five other people were arrested, including three men who were removed from the apartment at the heart of the raid, the Paris prosecutor's office said. Three police officers were reported to have been wounded during the operation.
The identities of the dead and detained suspects wasn't immediately clear.
A senior Belgian counterterrorism official told CNN that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks, was one of the potential targets of the police raid.
But the official cautioned that French and Belgian authorities weren't certain that Abaaoud, who was widely believed to have been in Syria recently, was at the location when they launched the raid.
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