Paris attack: Suspected ring leader killed

Less than one week after the deadly attacks that took place in Paris, France, authorities in that country said Thursday that Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the suspected ringleader of the attacks, was killed Wednesday in a major police operation in a suburb of the city.

Another key suspect linked to Friday’s atrocities by ISIS attackers in the French capital is still at large. And Belgian authorities are conducting fresh raids around Brussels.

Read also: Paris raids foiled fresh attacks –police

Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins had earlier said that Abaaoud was not one of those detained, after the raid, and fsailed to release the identities of the two people killed during the raid on Sait-Denis.

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