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| The Paris prosecutor has said the fate of the suspected organiser of Friday's attacks remains unknown after a police raid on a flat ended in bloodshed. | The Paris prosecutor has said the fate of the suspected organiser of Friday's attacks remains unknown after a police raid on a flat ended in bloodshed. |
| Francois Molins told reporters Abdelhamid Abaaoud was not among eight people arrested during the raid in the Paris suburb of Saint Denis. | Francois Molins told reporters Abdelhamid Abaaoud was not among eight people arrested during the raid in the Paris suburb of Saint Denis. |
| However, human remains found in the rubble of the flat had still to be identified, he said. | However, human remains found in the rubble of the flat had still to be identified, he said. |
| A woman blew herself up and another suspect was shot during the raid. | A woman blew herself up and another suspect was shot during the raid. |
| Abaaoud is said to have organised Friday's gun and bomb attacks in Paris, when 129 people were killed. | Abaaoud is said to have organised Friday's gun and bomb attacks in Paris, when 129 people were killed. |
| All of the victims of the attacks - which targeted a concert hall, cafes and the Stade de France stadium and were claimed by the so-called Islamic State (IS) group - have now been identified, the government says. | All of the victims of the attacks - which targeted a concert hall, cafes and the Stade de France stadium and were claimed by the so-called Islamic State (IS) group - have now been identified, the government says. |
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| Mr Molins said the police operation in Saint Denis had foiled a new attack, stopping a "new terrorist cell" which appeared to be ready to strike. | |
| "At this time, I'm not in a position to give a precise and definitive number for the people who died, nor their identities, but there are at least two dead people," he added. | |
| Details he gave of the operation in Saint Denis paint a picture of a ferocious battle | |
| Seven men and one woman were arrested, Mr Molins confirmed. | |
| However, Salah Abdeslam, a 26-year-old French national identified as a suspect in Friday's attacks, was not among them, he said. | |
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| Five members of the RAID police anti-terrorism unit were lightly injured in the operation while a RAID "assault dog", a seven-year-old Belgian Shepherd called Diesel, was killed. | |
| More than 400 people were wounded in Friday's attacks, of whom 221 are still in hospital, 57 of them in intensive care. | |
| IS said it had carried out the attacks in response to France's air campaign against its leadership in Syria, and pledged further bloodshed. | |
| French President Francois Hollande said on Wednesday that IS threatened the whole world and he would be seeking a "large coalition" to work together to defeat the militant group. | |
| What is Islamic State? | |
| IS is a notoriously violent Islamist group which controls large parts of Syria and Iraq. It has declared its territory a caliphate - a state governed in accordance with Islamic law - under its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. | |
| What does it want? | |
| IS demands allegiance from all Muslims, rejects national borders and seeks to expand its territory. It follows its own extreme version of Sunni Islam and regards non-believers as deserving of death. | |
| How strong is IS? | |
| IS projects a powerful image, partly through propaganda and sheer brutality, and is the world's richest insurgent group. It has about 30,000 fighters but is facing daily bombing by a US-led multi-national coalition, which has vowed to destroy it. | |
| What is Islamic State? | |
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