Paris police raid apartment

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French officials believe they may have averted another deadly attack after launching an early morning raid on an apartment in a Paris suburb.

Investigators believe the possible mastermind in Friday’s horrific attack may have been at the home.

Authorities say the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks and a fugitive wanted in the deadly rampage were not arrested in a massive police raid north of the capital, but could be among those killed.

Heavily armed French S.W.A.T. teams swooped in, firing thousands of bullets during an hours-long battle.

At least 2 people were killed, including a women who blew herself up with a suicide vest.

Belgian and French police and security agencies picked up on a telephone wiretap leading them to an apartment in Saint-Denis, not far from where the deadly stadium attack happened on Friday.

Police were on the hunt for Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the ringleader of the attacks.

Outside the building heavily armed officers came in by the truckload.

Inside a woman in another apartment hid with her baby.

“They said to stay laid down on the floor, don’t move, and turn off all the lights, and that’s what I did and I hid.”

She says gunfire and explosions shook the building until the raid was over.

The raid apparently came just in the nick of time, reportedly thwarting another attack.

7 people were arrested. Officials say the identities of the dead are still being investigated but that neither Abaaoud, nor the fugitive attacker, Salah Abdeslam, are in custody. They are either dead or still on the run.

President Francois Hollande says the raid shows his country is, in fact, at war.

“A war against terrorism which itself has decided to bring war to us.”

Meanwhile French and Russian airstrikes continue in Syria.

Police have banned public demonstrations in Paris and surrounding towns until next Sunday. A debate will start tomorrow in France’s Parliament on whether to extend the state of emergency for 3 months.