Osama bin Laden was killed in his “mansion,”according to the New York Times in a compound located in the city of Abbottabad, Pakistan, about two hours outside of Islamabad. According to the Times, while comfortable in some respects, the residents did take security seriously:

It was hardly the spartan cave in the mountains where many had envisioned Bin Laden to be hiding. Rather, it was a mansion on the outskirts of the town’s center, set on an imposing hilltop and ringed by 12-foot-high concrete walls topped with barbed wire.The property was valued at $1 million, but it had neither a telephone nor an Internet connection. Its residents were so concerned about security that they burned their trash rather putting it on the street for collection like their neighbors.

The Times reports that the mansion was constructed in 2005.

Surrounded by 18ft walls topped by barbed wire, the only access was through two security gates. A third-floor terrace was shielded by a seven-foot privacy wall.

Suspicions are understood to have been roused by the fact that no phone lines or internet cables ran to the property and the residents burned their rubbish rather than putting it out for collection.

The premises were located close to a military academy.

US Navy Seals launched a helicopter raid on the compound and killed bin Laden and three other men, including one of his son’s.

Four choppers swooped in a pre-drawn raid.

Pakistani officials and a witness said bin Laden’s guards opened fire from the roof of the building and one of the choppers crashed. The sound of at least two explosions rocked the small north-western town of Abbottabad where the al Qaida chief made his last stand.

The US said no Americans were harmed in the raid.

ABC has the following report, which looks inside the bloodied compound:

The Department of Defense released the following graphics and satellite photos of the Abbotabad compound: