CNN’s senior international correspondent Atika Shubert (@atikacnn on Twitter and Instagram) was reporting live on the police raid on terror suspects in Saint-Denis, France earlier Wednesday morning when a series of explosions interrupted her broadcast. The violent, hours-long operation ended with two suspected terrorists dead and seven detained.

 

"I saw the scene, so I said to CNN control room: ‘Come to us live.’ I was then describing on air what these police were doing, including one of them showing a picture to the other officers. As I was doing that we heard explosions go off, so I talked to the camera as we were live," Shubert said.

 

"We didn't know how many were going to be coming. I counted down the explosions, there were maybe six or seven in total. It was very fluid, very fast-moving. At the time you could see the police were very tense, especially the guys with the masks, the balaclavas. They were looking almost angry as they were moving through the crowd of journalists."