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Third body found in Paris attacks flat | Third body found in Paris attacks flat |
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A third body has been recovered from the apartment in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis raided by police over last Friday's attacks, prosecutors say. | A third body has been recovered from the apartment in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis raided by police over last Friday's attacks, prosecutors say. |
They confirmed the body of a woman was found overnight in a search of the flat following Wednesday morning's raid, but did not give her identity. | They confirmed the body of a woman was found overnight in a search of the flat following Wednesday morning's raid, but did not give her identity. |
But a passport bearing the name Hasna Aitboulahcen, who blew herself up, was found in a handbag at the scene. | But a passport bearing the name Hasna Aitboulahcen, who blew herself up, was found in a handbag at the scene. |
The suspected ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud was killed in Wednesday's raid. | The suspected ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud was killed in Wednesday's raid. |
Hasna Aitboulahcen is widely reported to have been Abaaoud's cousin, and died after detonating a suicide vest soon after the seven-hour long raid of the Rue Cormillon apartment began. | |
News that Abaaoud and at least one of his accomplices may have travelled undetected from Syria before carrying out last Friday's attacks has shocked many in Europe. | |
European Union interior ministers are meeting in Brussels to discuss tougher security measures for the bloc, including tightening the external borders of the passport-free Schengen area. | |
France's Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, on his way into the meeting, said the EU had "wasted too much time on a number of urgent issues" and hoped "today takes the decisions that we must take". | |
The near-simultaneous attacks by suicide bombers and gunmen on bars and restaurants, a concert hall and sports stadium last Friday killed 129 people and left hundreds of people wounded. IS said it was behind the attacks. | |
Tributes are paid to the victims of the Paris attacks |