PARIS - A third body has been found in the rubble of an apartment where the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks was killed in a fierce shootout with police, prosecutors said Friday.
The body of a woman was also found in the apartment in the northern Paris suburb of Saint-Denis in the raid Wednesday which killed the man suspected of orchestrating the attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud.
The statement issued Friday said a handbag was found containing the passport of Abaaoud's female cousin Hasna Ait Boulahcen, who was suspected of dying in the raid.
The identity of the third body was not disclosed by the prosecutors who have said a suicide bomber blew themselves up as hundreds of armed police stormed the apartment in a dawn raid.