Third Body Found in Rubble of Paris Apartment

The suicide bomber killed in Saint-Denis has been declared as a male after investigators sorted the body parts found in the flat raided by French police on Wednesday.

The female jihadist’s chilling last words are believed to be in reference to Abaaoud, the architect of last Friday’s terror attacks across Paris who had been linked to four thwarted terror plots this year.

Prosecutors confirmed that both she and Abbaoud died in the seven-hour-long raid in the Rue Cormillon apartment on Wednesday morning.

A petty criminal who went to fight in Syria in 2013, Abdelhamid Abaaoud is believed to have recruited similar young men from immigrant families in his native Brussels district of Molenbeek and elsewhere in Belgium and France.

A few 5,000 rounds were fired in the raid in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis, officials have said. Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said that the French government were not aware that Abaaoud was in Europe.

France declared a state of emergency after the attacks, and security forces have conducted 414 raids, making 60 arrests and seizing 75 weapons, including 11 military-style firearms, the Interior Ministry said.

European countries agreed Friday to new steps aimed at securing Europe’s frontiers, as further evidence emerged that extremists in last week’s terrorist attacks in Paris were using the region’s porous borders to slip between the continent and the battlefields of the Middle East.

The identity of the person was not clear, but it is a woman, and not Salah Abdeslam, who remains the intense focus of an global manhunt for his suspected involvement in the attacks that killed 129 people a week ago.

Islamic State (IS) said it was behind the attacks – the worst in Europe since the 2004 Madrid bombings.

The police extradited to Belgium a 33-year-old Algerian man arrested in an Athens raid, but Abaaoud was never found.

Another Paris attacker allegedly used a stolen Syrian passport to enter Greece under the guise of a refugee.

Other: Third person who died in November 18 assault.

Moroccan authorities, who have detained scores of Islamic State militants in recent months, also arrested Abaaoud’s brother Yassine last month after he arrived in Agadir, a Moroccan security source said on Friday.

He is now France’s most wanted man.

Abaaoud ended up near Paris after reportedly being in Syria but officials have not said how he managed to travel across so many borders to the French capital.

In addition, the European Union announced Friday it will tighten passport controls for its 22 members.

“This tool [PNR] is absolutely indispensable to combat terrorism and in particular in order to monitor the return of foreign fighters”, Cazeneuve told a news conference in Brussels.