The source did not identify the casualty.
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ISIS has claimed responsibility for Friday’s attacks in Paris that left at least 129 dead and more than 300 wounded.
Residents said an explosion shook the neighborhood shortly after 4 a.m.
He said Belgian authorities were also trying to keep an eye on Bilal Hadfi, one of the suicide bombers who struck outside the Stade de France, according to several sources.
At 11:47 am, Stephane Le Foll, the agriculture minister and a government spokesman, announced on Twitter that the operation was over and that Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve would soon provide details.
Speaking at the scene of Wednesday’s raid, Molins said the operation began with a pre-dawn shootout and resulted in the capture of three people inside the apartment, the death of a woman who set off an explosive charge, and the death of “another terrorist… who was hit by projectiles and grenades”.
French TV station BFMTV is reporting that a woman died after detonating a suicide belt when police raided the apartment.
Paris prosecutor Francois Molins told reporters that the raid was carried out after police had gathered information from surveillance, witness accounts, and tapped telephone conversations.
Amine Guizani said the blast was followed by the sound of grenades and automatic gunfire.
Kalashnikov-type weapons were found in a vehicle with Belgian licence plates in northern Paris on Tuesday – believed to be hired by Saleh Abdeslam and used in the attack.
The attacks have galvanized global resolve to destroy the jihadist group and end Syria’s more than four-year civil war, while potentially restoring ties between Russian Federation and France that had collapsed since last year’s Ukraine crisis.
“You could see it in their eyes, ” Marie said.
The official, who was not authorized to be publicly named according to police rules but is informed routinely about the operation, says that scores of police who stormed the building early Wednesday were met with unexpectedly violent resistance.
One of yesterday’s raids was in Drancy, north of Paris, where the mother and teenaged sister of Sami Amimour, who blew himself up inside the Bataclan theatre, were taken for questioning.
The Paris police department says officers have exchanged gunfire with the suspects and several police have been injured.
It’s unclear whether there are injuries among the suspects. He said: “When we got on site at 7:45am, the police were already checking every auto coming in near the town center of Saint-Denis”.
A few of the attackers in the Friday night attacks rented a house in the northeast Paris suburb of Bobigny last week, telling the landlady they were businessmen from Belgium, and a hotel suite in the southeast Paris suburb of Alfortville, officials said.
A helicopter is seen circling over the apartment block and a pedestrian area at the centre of the siege.
Police forces operate in Saint-Denis on Wednesday, November 18.
“Ten meters from me I saw policemen and heard explosions, gun shots…”
“This new team was planning an attack on La Defense”, one source said, referring to a high-rise neighbourhood on the outskirts of Paris that is home to top banks and businesses.
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Investigators have identified 27-year-old Abaaoud, a Belgian of Moroccan descent, as the chief architect of Friday’s attacks in Paris.
