BREAKING NEWS: One jihadi shot dead and a female suicide bomber blows herself up as gunfight continues at Paris terrorist apartment

The ongoing siege that started at 4:30 am on the apartment of the mastermind of last Friday massacre of 129 in Paris may soon end, with a female terrorist wearing a suicide vest blowing herself up and another jihadi is dead, while three other terrorist were taken alive when more than 100 police and soldiers swooped on the facility and engaged up to six suspected terrorist in a gunfight.

A bloodied and half naked suspect was seen dragged out of a building through broken glass as SWAT teams and special forces surrounded an apartment in the Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis - close to the Stade de France.

French Media are reporting that the mastermind of attacks that killed 129 people, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, 27, is alive and inside the apartment - until now it was thought he was coordinating from ISIS capital Raqqa in Syria.

A woman who may be Abaaoud's jihadi bride is said to have fired her AK-47 at police before blowing herself up as an assault squad stormed the apartment block. Survivors of the Bataclan massacre where 89 people died insisted there was a female shooter.

As she tried to kill police this morning a rooftop sniper shot dead another terror suspect through a window. Police have confirmed that three people in the apartment were taken alive and arrested while two others were held 'nearby' with security forces still trying to 'neutralise' more holed-up in the flat. 

An innocent person on the street may have been killed in the crossfire and at least five police have been injured in the ferocious gunfight including one shot in the foot seen being carried from the scene. The terrorists also shot and killed a seven-year-old specialist police dog Diesel, sent into the block.

One of the nine suspected massacre shooters Salah Abdeslam, 26, who has been subject to an international manhunt focussed on Belgium, may also be inside.  

Teams of armed police appeared on a street outside the Saint-Denis flat before dawn today and then at least three trucks of soldiers and special forces arrived as back up.

More details shortly......