A woman wearing an explosive suicide vest blew herself up Wednesday as heavily armed police tried to storm a suburban Paris apartment where the suspected mastermind of last week’s gun and bomb rampage was believed to be holed up, police said. They said one man was also killed and seven people arrested in the standoff, which began before dawn and continued for more than seven hours, with gunfire and large bangs sporadically ringing out near the apartment building In the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis. Government spokesman Stephane Le Foll said just before noon that “the operation is over.” The fate of the suspected attacks planner, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was unclear. Police said a...
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