Police officers in Saint Denis, a northern suburb of Paris (AP)
A woman wearing a suicide vest was among two suspects in the Paris attacks who were killed during a raid in a suburb of the French capital, police said.
The woman detonated the explosives as scores of officers raided a property in the northern suburb of Saint-Denis, officials said.
It came as a massive police operation targeted Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected mastermind of last week’s terror attacks that killed at least 129 people.
Authorities believe they traced Abaaoud to an apartment in Saint-Denis along with up to five other heavily armed people.
At least seven explosions were heard at the scene of the stand-off.
An official with the Paris police department said four police officers were injured in the raid.
Authorities in Saint-Denis earlier evacuated residents from the apartment building where the suspects were holed up.
The building is in rue du Cornillon, in the heart of the historic multicultural area north of the city centre.
The site is about a mile from the Stade de France national stadium, where three suicide bombers blew themselves up on Friday during a football friendly with President Francois Hollande in attendance.
Paris raids: Suicide bomber among two suspects killed
