Two people died on Wednesday and seven were detained when police raided the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis in an attempt to capture the alleged mastermind of last week’s terrorist attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud. The raid was one of 118 searches conducted overnight. The dead included a female suicide bomber who set off her explosive vest shortly after the police assault started at 4.20am, French prosecutor Francois Molins said. The body of a man was found later. He had been hit by “projectiles” and grenades, said Molins. It was not immediately clear if 28-year-old Abaaoud was among the dead or the seven people who were detained during the raid in the Saint-Denis suburb....
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