Abdelhamid Abaaoud

The suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, has been identified among the dead of Saint Denis raid, as French public prosecutor announced on Thursday.

A day after a raid conducted by French police forces , authorities announced that one of the terrorists killed is Abdelhamid Abaaoud . His body was found in the building in northern Paris.

The suspected mastermind of last week's Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was killed in the police raid of an apartment north of the capital on Nov. 18, French officials said on Nov. 19, as French lawmakers extended emergency powers imposed after the carnage.

The body of the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, has been identified among those killed in a police raid, the prosecutor's office said Nov. 19.

A Belgian shepherd dog, called Diesel, was killed on Wednesday as one female suicide bomber blew herself out during a police shoot-out with a number of suspected terrorists, that may have included the lead plotter of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud.

French public prosecutor Francois Molins held a press conference on Saint Denis police operation conducted in order to capture the terrorists who attacked Paris and killed 129 people.

Abdelhamid Abaaoud, a Belgian man thought to be the mastermind behind Friday's deadly attacks in Paris, was the target of a police operation in the Saint Denis suburb in northern Paris, police have told AFP.

Reports have now emerged that the group of suspects that had been pinned down in two Saint Denis apartments was about to carry out a second major terror attack.

A woman blew herself up and a suspected jihadist was killed, as seven suspects were detained Nov. 18 in a massive police assault in Paris targeting the possible mastermind of last week's Paris attacks that killed at least 129 people and wounded more than 300.

Amid gunfire and explosions, police raided a suburban Paris apartment where the suspected mastermind of last week's attacks was believed to be holed up Nov. 18. The siege ended with two deaths and seven arrests but no clear information on his fate.

Two suspected jihadists were killed, including a woman who blew herself up, in a shootout Nov. 18 in north Paris with police hunting the mastermind of last week's attacks on the French capital, sources said.

Paris is in a state of alert after several reports of gunfire made – beginning at around 4.30 a.m. local time and running for more than three hours – during an ongoing operation at St. Denis, north of Paris, and 2km away from the Stade de France where attacks took place on Friday.