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Number of Paris Attacks Victims Rises to 130


 


The number of people killed in last week’s attacks in Paris has risen to 130, the French Prime Minister has said.
More than 350 people were wounded in shootings and bombings at cafes, the national football stadium and a rock concert last Friday.
Authorities had warned the death toll was likely to rise as almost 100 people remained in a critical condition after the attacks.
The latest victim of the attacks died in hospital.
The gunmen and bombers “killed mercilessly, destroying 130 lives”, Manuel Valls told the French Senate.
He made the announcement as more details emerged about the seven-hour siege at the Paris apartment where the ringleader of the attacks was killed.
Abdelhamid Abaaoud and two other people died after hundreds of police raided the Saint Denis flat early on Wednesday.
His cousin, Hasna Aitboulahcen, 26, was also killed. It is believed she blew herself up with an explosives vest amid heavy gunfire.
The third body – another female – is yet to be identified.
Officers had been tapping Aitboulahcen’s phone as part of a drugs investigation and were able to track her to the flat, a police source has told Reuters news agency.
Police had been following her and watched her take Abaaoud to the building on Tuesday night, hours before the raid, the source said.
A witness has also told Sky News that she saw  Abaaoud,  a 28-year-old Belgian of Moroccan origin,  near the flats drinking beer and smoking cannabis after the massacres.
French media is also reporting Aitboulahcen transformed from a party girl who liked wearing cowboy hats to a radical Islamist who wore the full-faced veil just six months ago.
“She was unstable, she created her own bubble. She wasn’t looking to study religion, I have never even seen her open a Koran,” her brother told AFP news agency.
Abaaoud’s body was found “riddled with bullets” after the raid, the prosecutor’s office said. He was identified using skin samples.
His cousin, who was born and grew up in Paris, was identified from her fingerprints.
Meanwhile, the international manhunt is continuing for one of the suspected attacks gunmen, Salah Abdeslam, who was let go by French police hours after the massacres.
Belgian media is reporting that several witnesses have spotted him in different parts of Brussels.


 

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