Paris attack ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud Killed

Prosecutors have also confirmed that a woman who blew herself up during the raid was Abaaoud’s 26-year old cousin Hasna Aitboulahcen.

French police target Islamist militants in raids across the country, while police suspect that Belgian national Abdelhamid Abaaoud ordered the Paris operation.

As a result, French prosecutors have said it has been hard to identify the bodies.

13, a coordinated series of shootings and suicide bombings in Paris killed 130 people and wounded 352, in an attack claimed by Islamic State.

An global arrest warrant is now out for the 26-year-old suspect, who is thought to be hiding in his family’s hometown of Molenbeek, Brussels.

A source close to the investigation said the five from inside who have been freed were believed just to be squatters without proper identity papers, while a man and a woman picked up outside have also been released.

PAPAL SECURITY: Pope Francis’ personal security detail was nearly doubled during his general audience, and military police were out in force as Italy and the Vatican beefed up security around the Holy See following the Paris attacks and ahead of Francis’ big Jubilee Year starting December 8.

The man who hosted the terrorists in his flat Rue du Corbillon, Jawad Bendaoud, is still under police arrest on suspicion of being linked to the Paris attacks.

In a stark warning of the dangers facing Europe, Germany’s head of domestic intelligence Hans-Georg Maassen said IS was “starting a terrorist world war”.

Abaaoud was one of Islamic State’s highest-profile European recruits, appearing in its slick online English-language magazine Dabiq, where he boasted of crossing European borders to stage attacks.

Hours after the UN Security Council passed the resolution authorising countries to “take all necessary measures” against IS, gunmen stormed a luxury hotel in Mali’s capital, taking more than 100 people hostage in a siege that left at least 27 dead.

A Paris police official said Saturday that he had no information about Dahmani or his possible visit to the attack sites.

“We can’t cry “victory over terrorism”, said Michel Thooris, secretary-general for the France-Police labor union. His brother, Brahim Abdeslam, blew himself up at a bar, but did not kill anyone else.

It comes as the Belgian Prime Minister said the Metro and school in Brussels will remain closed for a third day on Monday over fears of an “attack like in Paris”.

He is believed to have rented a VW Polo auto in Belgium, which was later found near the Bataclan concert hall where 89 people were killed.

Valls made the announcement in a speech to the Senate, which is expected to approve a three-month extension to France’s state of emergency.

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.