In the apartment blew up a suicide vest. Police ordered residents to stay inside. Anyone who approached was told that no Uncertain Terms to back away. Neighbors, many of them muslim immigrants, were evacuated by police and searched. We stopped this resident who was rushing down the street. He said in arabic that he had witnessed the whole thing. I saws the raid. Twenty cars passed by here. Then five minutes later, the shooting started he said. You heard the gunfire i ask. I saw it with my eyes he said. Meanwhile, the police focused on one apartment on the third floor of this building. That neighbors say is the apartment where the raids targets were holed up. The main target Officials Say was abdelhamid abaaoud, the man they describe as the mastermind behind the paris attacks. A belgium national, he had gone to syria to join isis. As day was breaking, the raids seem to be winding down. But explosions echoed through the streets. Its common in situations like this for police to use grenad