Fresh firing has been reported in the Saint Denis area of northern Paris early on Wednesday as special police forces launched an operation to catch one of the suspects from Friday night’s shooting in the French capital.
Few policemen have also been injured during the operation, French TV station BFMTV reported.
The operation took place near the Stade de France soccer stadium where three suicide bombers detonated their explosive belts and killed a passerby.
There was an exchange of gunfire during the operation in Saint-Denis, according to a source close to the investigation, who could not confirm who was targeted in the operation. A special armed response unit took part in the raid, another source said. The incident came to light just five days after Paris attacks that killed 129 people.
Earlier, two Air France flights en route to Paris from the United States were diverted because of security issues, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) 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, an FAA spokesman said.
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, the FAA said.