Suspected mastermind of Paris attacks killed during police raid in Paris

The body of Belgian extremist Abaaoud, 27, was found in the building targeted on Wednesday and was identified based on skin samples, the prosecutor’s office said.

Prosecutors have only confirmed it is a female body, but are still working to identify her.

Greece on Friday denied a claim by French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve that the alleged ringleader of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, had been in the country.

The identity of the woman, whose body was unearthed from rubble produced by a series of explosions, has yet to be revealed. A bill to extend a state of emergency until February and give the police new powers goes before the upper house of the French parliament later on Friday. “We must not rule anything out”.

Mrs May said that there also needed to be “immediate progress” on obtaining access to passenger name records.

The European Commission called for the establishment of an EU-wide intelligence agency, following criticism of failures to share information, particularly on the whereabouts of Abaaoud.

In the United States, the Republican-dominated Congress on Thursday voted to ban Syrian and Iraqi refugees from entering the USA until tougher screening measures are in place.

The count does not include any of the attackers who died. It also allows authorities to jail suspected fighters returning to Belgium from Iraq and Syria.

Some 350 people were also wounded in last Friday’s attacks, many severely.

Abdeslam is thought to be one of the only surviving members of the Paris attacks gang. She was actually killed when another terrorist blew himself up with a suicide vest.

French President François Hollande was due to host the Moroccan king Mohammed VI on Friday afternoon to discuss the global fight against terrorism. “There is an opening, so to speak, with the Russians”. Ait Boulahcen was initially believed to have blown herself up during the raid, but investigators later determined that she had not detonated an explosive device and herself and was probably killed during the shootout.

The 28-year-old Belgian militant Abaaoud played a key role in the worst attacks on France since World War II and seemed involved in four of six foiled attacks in the country since the spring, Cazeneuve told reporters.