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PARIS: Shooting broke out in a northern suburb of Paris during an anti-terrorist police operation, sources said on Wednesday, five days after the worst attacks in French history killed 129 people in the capital..
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French TV station BFMTV said some police had been wounded during the operation. BFMTV and iTele showed amateur videos of the shooting and cited witnesses in the area saying they had been hearing sporadic gunfire since around 4:30am..
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Men were still holed up in an apartment in the Saint Denis area in northern Paris. The operation, which began before dawn, was still ongoing at 6:15am local time. The area is close to the Stade de France soccer stadium where three suicide bombers detonated their explosive belts and killed a passerby on Friday..
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This latest shooting comes as France remains on high alert after a video revealed a ninth man may have taken part in the Paris attacks last week. The terror group Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attacks. Police across Europe are hunting the newest suspect, after footage showed a third man in a car used by gunmen who opened fire at bars and restaurants in central Paris..
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It is not clear if this ninth man is one of two suspected accomplices detained in Belgium or is on the run, possibly with 26-year-old fugitive Frenchman Salah Abdeslam who carried out one of the attacks at Bonne Biere cafe along with his suicide-bomber brother Brahim..
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Earlier, two Air France flights en route to Paris from the United States were diverted because of security issues, the Federal Aviation Administration said. An Airbus A-380 that departed from Los Angeles landed in Salt Lake City, where passengers and crew were being deplaned and transferred to the terminal. A separate flight that left Dulles International Airport outside Washington was diverted to Halifax International Airport in Nova Scotia also because of an unspecified security concern..
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French President Francois Hollande on Wednesday will hold a meeting to discuss proposals to extend the state of emergency declared after the worst attacks in French history for three months. It will then be put to vote by lawmakers Thursday and Friday..
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In a sign of the nervousness gripping Europe after Friday's carnage, a football match between Germany and the Netherlands was cancelled on Tuesday and the crowd evacuated after police acted on a "serious" bomb threat.
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French TV station BFMTV said some police had been wounded during the operation. BFMTV and iTele showed amateur videos of the shooting and cited witnesses in the area saying they had been hearing sporadic gunfire since around 4:30am..
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Men were still holed up in an apartment in the Saint Denis area in northern Paris. The operation, which began before dawn, was still ongoing at 6:15am local time. The area is close to the Stade de France soccer stadium where three suicide bombers detonated their explosive belts and killed a passerby on Friday..
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This latest shooting comes as France remains on high alert after a video revealed a ninth man may have taken part in the Paris attacks last week. The terror group Islamic State has claimed responsibility for the attacks. Police across Europe are hunting the newest suspect, after footage showed a third man in a car used by gunmen who opened fire at bars and restaurants in central Paris..
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It is not clear if this ninth man is one of two suspected accomplices detained in Belgium or is on the run, possibly with 26-year-old fugitive Frenchman Salah Abdeslam who carried out one of the attacks at Bonne Biere cafe along with his suicide-bomber brother Brahim..
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Earlier, two Air France flights en route to Paris from the United States were diverted because of security issues, the Federal Aviation Administration said. An Airbus A-380 that departed from Los Angeles landed in Salt Lake City, where passengers and crew were being deplaned and transferred to the terminal. A separate flight that left Dulles International Airport outside Washington was diverted to Halifax International Airport in Nova Scotia also because of an unspecified security concern..
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French President Francois Hollande on Wednesday will hold a meeting to discuss proposals to extend the state of emergency declared after the worst attacks in French history for three months. It will then be put to vote by lawmakers Thursday and Friday..
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In a sign of the nervousness gripping Europe after Friday's carnage, a football match between Germany and the Netherlands was cancelled on Tuesday and the crowd evacuated after police acted on a "serious" bomb threat.
