A police raid is taking
place in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, states French police. Police
wouldn't comment on a report - officers have been shot in the operation.
Witnesses report heavy
gunfire and that police are blocking roads in the northern Paris suburb of
Saint-Denis early Wednesday. Police officers have been shot and wounded during
a raid seeking one of the suspects in the Paris terrorist attacks, a local news
channel has reported.
The older brother of Salah
Abdeslam, the man being hunted internationally for his alleged role in the Paris
terror attacks last week, urged the suspect Tuesday to turn himself over to
authorities. "I would tell him to surrender. That's the best
solution," Mohamed Abdeslam told CNN's Erin Burnett in an interview.
"But of course, if he has something to do with it, he must accept
responsibility."
Authorities
are combing through evidence as they try to track down the 26-year-old fugitive.
And he may not be the only suspect tied to the attacks who's on the run. In
their push to unravel the attack plot and the suspected network behind it,
counterterrorism and intelligence officials say investigators have uncovered a
clue that could be a big break: cell phones believed to belong to the
attackers.
Earlier, security sources
said surveillance video showed a possible ninth assailant during the attacks in
which 129 people died.