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Ringleader of Paris attacks has been killed

Police officers of the research and intervention brigade (BRI) walk to their truck in Saint-Denis, near Paris, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015. A woman wearing an explosive suicide vest blew herself up Wednesday as heavily armed police tried to storm a suburban Paris apartment where the suspected mastermind of last week's attacks was believed to be holed up, police said. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong) Police officers of the research and intervention brigade (BRI) walk to their truck in Saint-Denis, near Paris, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2015. A woman wearing an explosive suicide vest blew herself up Wednesday as heavily armed police tried to storm a suburban Paris apartment where the suspected mastermind of last week's attacks was believed to be holed up, police said. (AP Photo/Peter Dejong)

By Staff Report November 18, 2015 1 min read

The alleged ringleader of the Paris attacks was killed Wednesday by French police, according to two sources reached by the Washington Post.

The Post reported that more than 100 police officers and solders engaged suspected militants in a seven-hour siege that resulted in two deaths and a handful of arrests.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian extremist, was located after investigators followed leads that he was located north of Paris, and was plotting more violence, the Washington Post reported.