PARIS: The master mind of Paris attack, Islamic State jihadist was killed during a major police raid in northern Paris, prosecutors confirmed.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud was killed in Wednesday´s assault by elite police units on an apartment in northern Paris, which left at least two people dead.
The law enforcement agency staged a seven-hour assault in the north of Paris on Wednesday after intelligence led investigators to an apartment where Abdelhamid Abaaoud of orchestrating the worst ever militant attack on French soil was thought to be hiding.
Handprint analysis was used to identify the Belgian´s body, which was found among the rubble of the shattered building after officers rained fire and grenades on the jihadists in a seven-hour siege.
Prosecutor Francois Molins said Wednesday that the raid in Saint-Denis had stopped a “new team of terrorists” who were ready to launch another attack in a city still mourning 129 dead.
At least two bodies were found after the ferocious shootout, including what is thought to be a woman who detonated an explosives vest.
The French prosecutors office on Thursday announced that Abdelhamid Abaaoud was among those killed in the raid in Saint-Denis.
