Reports: Third Paris concert hall bomber identified

Jane Onyanga-Omara | USA TODAY

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A third suicide bomber in the Paris attacks has been identified, according to media reports Wednesday.

An unnamed French official said the man, who blew himself up at the Bataclan concert venue, was a French national who went to Syria in 2013, the Associated Press reported.

Le Parisien newspaper named him as Foued Mohamed-Aggad, 23, from Strasbourg in northeastern France.

A French judicial official, speaking on condition of anonymity, also named Mohamed-Aggad and told the AP that he was one of a dozen young men from Strasbourg who left for Syria in late 2013, but some, including his brother, returned, saying they were disgusted by what they saw. Mourad Fares, the Frenchman believed to have recruited them, was arrested. All are charged with terror-related offenses and face trial, the AP said.

At least 89 people were killed when militants attacked the Bataclan during a concert by the U.S. rock band Eagles of Death Metal, on Nov. 13. A total of 130 people died in a series of attacks in Paris that night. The Islamic State group claimed responsibility.

Speaking Wednesday, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said: "What is important is that the investigation is progressing, that the accomplices are found out, that arrests happen.

“This will all take time and in the face of the terrorist threat that is unfortunately here, we need to carry on with this work of tracking down terrorists because we are at war with radical Islam, with Daesh,” he said, using an Arabic acronym for the Islamic State group, also known as ISIS or ISIL.

Two extremists who attacked the Bataclan were killed by detonating explosive vests and the third was shot by police. The other Bataclan attackers were previously named as Samy Amimour and Ismail Omar Mostefai, both from France.

A militant who was killed in a police raid on Nov. 18 remains unidentified, the AP reported. Two suicide bombers who attacked at the national stadium carried Syrian passports that are thought to be false.