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Fate of Paris attack 'mastermind' still unknown after raid

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Last Updated : Nov 19 2015 | 1:07 AM IST
The suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was not among a number of people arrested in a huge police raid today, the city's prosecutor said.
At least two bodies were found in the apartment in Saint-Denis, north of Paris, after a shootout with police, but they have not yet been identified, prosecutor Francois Molins told a press conference.
He said intelligence had led investigators to believe Abaaoud, a leading Islamic State extremist, could have been in the apartment.
In a ferocious shootout, a woman detonated her suicide vest and a body was found riddled with bullets and was "not in a state that allows it to be identified", Molins said.
Therefore, he said: "I am not able to give you a precise number and identity of those killed. There are at least two dead and verifications will likely take longer than expected" due to the state of the apartment building.

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First Published: Nov 19 2015 | 1:07 AM IST

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