Prosecutor: Paris attacks ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud dead
By Greg Botelho, Jethro Mullen and Paul Cruickshank, CNN
Updated 1416 GMT (2216 HKT) November 19, 2015
Story highlights
- France's lower house approves a bill to extend the state of emergency 3 months
- Belgian authorities conduct raids in Brussels in connection to last week's Paris attacks
- Prosecutor's office can't say yet whether Abdelhamid Abaaoud killed himself or was killed
Paris, France (CNN)The ringleader in last week's bloody terrorist attacks in Paris was killed in a pre-dawn raid Wednesday on an apartment building north of the French capital, the Paris prosecutor's office announced Thursday.
Authorities zeroed in on a building in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis after picking up phone conversations indicating that a relative of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, who authorities believe coordinated the shootings and bombings that killed 129 people, may have been there, a Belgian counterterrorism official said.
French police believed Abaaoud himself was then still in the country, though they didn't know exactly where. Some residents in Saint-Denis told CNN that they had seen Abaaoud recently in the neighborhood and at a local mosque.
It turns out Abaaoud was in that building in Saint-Denis. And after aviolent firefight that included explosions and gunfire, he was dead.
In a statement released Thursday, the Paris prosecutor's office said that Abaaoud's body was found in the Saint-Denis building riddled with bullets.
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