PARIS (Reuters) --- The suspected
mastermind of the attacks that killed 129 in Paris
was among those killed in a police raid in a suburb of the French capital on
Wednesday, the Paris
prosecutor said in a statement on Thursday.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud,
a 28-year-old Belgian militant, who had boasted of mounting attacks in Europe for the Islamic State, was accused of
orchestrating Friday's coordinated bombings and shootings.
Police originally
thought he was in Syria , but
their investigations led them to a house in the Paris suburb of St. Denis and heavily armed
officers stormed the building before dawn, triggering a massive firefight and
multiple explosions.
"Abdel Hamid
Abaaoud has just been formally identified, after comparing fingerprints, as
having been killed during the (police) raid," the statement said. "It
was the body we had discovered in the building, riddled with bullets."
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