PARIS: Police say two suspects in terror attacks have been killed

According to police, two people who were suspects in last week’s Paris attacks have been killed in an apartment targeted by a police raid this morning. The raid took place in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis following the attacks on Paris, according to a source close to the operation.

One of those who died was a female suicide bomber who died after detonating an explosive device, according to AFP reports. 

Three people are now said to have been arrested in relation to the attacks. An official with the Paris police department also confirmed that two police officers were injured in the standoff.

Earlier this morning, a source said the operation was aimed at the suspected mastermind of the attacks, Belgian Abdelhamid Abaaoud. They also said that police had been wounded in the shootout.

Police said earlier that between two and four people were in the apartment. 

Local residents had been evacuated and an area around Place Jean Jaures had been sealed off.

Sky News also reported that “at least seven large explosions” had been heard in the area. Senior correspondent Michelle Clifford, at the scene, said: "We have just heard a massive explosion – and now another – although we're not sure where they are coming from. They may be grenades.”

At the time it was unsure if they had been initiated by police or not. 

The area is home to the Stade de France, one of several places hit by gunmen and suicide bombers on Friday in the worst ever attack on French soil, which was claimed by the Islamic State jihadist group.

The coordinated attacks killed 129 people and injured more than 350, some of them critically.