The suicide bomber in Saint Denis was not a woman

Hasna Ait Boulahcen , the woman thought to have been a suicide bomber during the Saint Denis siege, did not blow herself up, according to a French police source.

Hasna Ait Boulahcen was the cousin of the mastermind of the Paris terror attacks Abdelhamid Abaaoud , who was killed during operation carried out by French special forces at Saint Denis.

Following the French operation, investigators had said that the person who was in the flat blew himself up. Police thought that person was a woman. But, now a police source says the suicide bomber was a man.

The police source said: ‘Hasna Ait Boulahcen, cousin of the suspected mastermind of the Paris attack, whose body was found in the rubble of the apartment in Saint Denis raided by police, was not killed in a suicide bombing.’