The raid was one of many carried out in the days since the Friday attacks. Pierre Suu / Getty Images

Medical staff shield people injured in the raid from view as they are transferred to a hospital. Pierre Suu / Getty Images

Authorities indicated that the raid was prompted by the belief that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, an alleged planner of Friday’s attacks, was in the district. Jacky Naegelen / Reuters

The police prepare to enter the Eglise Neuve church, as they secure the area around the raid. Jacky Naegelen / Reuters

A forensic team investigates an entryway in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, Nov. 18, 2015 after a raid by police in connection with the Friday's attacks in which 129 people were killed. Lionel Bonaventure / AFP / Getty Images

Heavily armed French police stormed an apartment in northern Paris on Wednesday in the hunt for suspects behind last week’s deadly attacks, resulting in the death of at least two people believed to be part of another cell planning new attacks on the capital’s financial district — stoking fears that France could be the target of more attacks.

The raid, which resulted in the arrests of eight people, targeted 27-year-old Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected planner of Friday’s attacks that left 129 people dead. Over 100 police officers fired 5,000 rounds in the hours-long raid that left two dead, including a woman who exploded an explosives belt, according to prosecutor François Molins. But Abaaoud’s fate remained unclear hours after the raid.

Molins said that neither Abaaoud, a Belgian who has fought for ISIL, nor Salah Abdelsam, another alleged fugitive attacker, were among those arrested.

“At this time, I'm not in a position to give a precise and definitive number for the people who died, nor their identities, but there are at least two people dead," Molins told reporters. “A new team of terrorists has been neutralized and everything suggests that the commando team could have taken action.”

Molins said the raid was the result of information gleaned from tapped telephone conversations and witness accounts, which indicated that Abaaoud might be holed up in the apartment in the Saint-Denis suburb in northern Paris.