Mastermind of Paris attacks died in police raid: Prosecutor

Forensics of the French police and members of the BRI, a special unit of the French police, are at work in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis city center, on November 18, 2015, as French Police special forces raid an appartment, hunting those behind the attacks that claimed 129 lives in the French capital five days ago. AFP Photo

The body of the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, has been identified among those killed in a police raid, the prosecutor's office said Nov. 19.

"Abdelhamid Abaaoud has just been formally identified... as having been killed during the raid" in a northern Paris suburb on Nov. 18, the prosecutor said in a statement.

Abaaoud, an Belgian jihadist and top Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) commander thought to be behind France's deadliest terror attacks Nov. 13, was identified using prints.

At least two bodies were found in the apartment in Saint-Denis after a seven-hour shootout and siege with elite police units.

A woman in the apartment detonated her suicide vest and a body was found so riddled with bullets that made it difficult to identify, the prosecutor had earlier said.

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