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The Friday the 13th attacks mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud was killed in the Saint Denis siege yesterday, which France says foiled a second plot.

A blonde woman, reported to be Abaaoud's cousin, named as Hasna Aitboulahcen, detonated a suicide belt, killing herself and a police dog called Diesel.

Abaaoud died in a 5,000-bullet shoot-out with armed cops over the course of a seven-hour siege.

It is reported that both bodies fell through a collapsed floor causing severe damage which hindered authorities in identifying them.

A further complication, investigators have revealed, was that part of Aitboulahcen's spine ended up on a police car outside.

French officials revealed yesterday's siege stopped a second chilling attack in the French capital, reportedly targeting the business district and Charles de Gaulle airport.

Jean-Michel Fauvergue, 56, led the raid which targeted 27-year-old Abaaoud and said: "After a long firefight, we heard a loud explosion.

"The windows of an apartment were shattered, blown from inside to outside. That's when we saw a human body, a woman's head, fly through the window and land on the pavement, on the other side of the street.

"A suicide bomber had just exploded. The blast was so devastating that a supporting wall moved."

He said a man then began shooting at them and bullets continued to come after they shot him, prompting them to use grenades to "saturate" the place in case there was another gunman inside.

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Gunfire and up to seven explosions ripped through the Paris air after police closed in on terror suspects in an apartment in Saint Denis.

Abaaoud, originally thought to have planned Friday's atrocities from Syria, was the target of the raids.

In a statement, the Paris prosecutor's office confirmed his death in the raid after his body was identified based on skin samples.

Eight jihadis were also arrested, including a man and woman detained outside the apartment.

A video has emerged showing Aitboulahchen arguing with police before detonating her belt, saying that she was not Abaaoud's girlfriend when police asked where he was.

Intelligence sources yesterday told the Washington Post he was dead.

Mr Molins said police began the raid on Wednesday after believed Abaaoud could be in the safe house after they tapped phone conversations, conucted surveillance and interviewed witnesses.

Fugitive attacker Salah Abdeslam, subject of a global manhunt, is still at large as authorities confirm he is not among the eight people arrested.

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A video emerged today of Evil Belgian Islamist Abaaoud taunting British Muslims, saying they lead "humiliating lives".

He is filmed with gunfire heard in the background, accusing western Muslims of leading "humiliating lives" and "daring to call themselves Muslim".

It is currently unclear if the footage was filmed before yesterday's shoot-out in the north Parisian suburb of Saint-Denis, where Abaaoud was killed, according to intelligence officials, five days after the atrocities which killed 129 people.

In the propaganda video, Abaaoud says Muslims in Britain and the West have "humiliating lives".

He says: "Are you satisfied with this life you have, staying home, sitting at your place?

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"Are you satisfied with this life you are having? This humiliating life whether it's in Europe, Africa, Arabic countries, America? Are you satisfied with this life? This humiliating life where you call yourself Muslim? You still dare to be called a Muslim?

"Look for pride and honour. You will only find it in your religion, in jihad."

A police sniper shot dead Abaaoud, as violent and unexpectedly ferocious resistance met officers when they stormed the building yesterday morning.

A seven-year-old police dog called Diesel died, while five police officers were injured.

Officers later broke the door down of a nearby church with a battering ram, although it is unclear what they were looking for.

Police were seen leading one suspect away who was naked from the waist down. The siege was finally over at about 11am, seven hours after the shootings and exposions started ringing out.

The siege took place in a quiet residential area close to the Stade de France, scene of one of the attacks on Friday.

The terrifying scenes did little to ease the tension felt by Parisians since the attacks at the Bataclan theatre, football stadium and several bars and restaurants last Friday which killed at least 129 people and injured hundreds more.

The siege was reminiscent of the end met by the Charlie Hebdo terror brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi in January, when they were killed by police after barricading themselves in a print works.

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Djihane, a neighbour near the siege, said: "There are men from RAID shooting from the rooftops. We've been told to lie on the floor and not go to the windows."

About 100 heavily armed French soldiers were at the scene, shortly before at least seven explosions rang out.

No hostages were held by the attackers.

A neighbour told local press: "I awoke to an explosion. After that I heard gun shots and there was lots of shooting. The terrorists were fighting at the police and the police were firing back.

"There were shots, explosions. We didn’t know where to go. My son and I were in panic. There was dust falling from the ceiling because of the explosions. I kept shouting ‘if you’re from the police, please help me. I’m here with my baby'.

"But they kept shooting and shooting."

Meanwhile the French government said all 129 people killed in the attacks have been identified.

About 100 families have come to see the bodies, the statement said, with at least 350 people wounded, many critically.

The death toll may still rise if some wounded do not recover.

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The apartment under siege on Wednesday morning was reportedly used by six of the Paris attackers in the time leading up to the attacks.

Roads in the neighbourhood were closed off when the operation began at 4.30am, with residents evacuated and others told to stay inside their homes and away from windows.

Deputy mayor Stephane Peu said: "It is not a new attack but a police intervention."

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A local politician said neighbours in the area thought another terror attack was underway.

A resident and young mother said: "I was woken at 4.10am by explosions.

"They went on for around 20 minutes and then there was automatic gunfire and shots.

"From our window we saw lights [flashing] as if grenades had been lit and thrown.

"Then helicopters had arrived, with spotlights on the roofs.

"We’re scared. We’ve turned the lights on so the children won’t be so scared."

At least, 129 were killed in the co-ordinated attacks by ISIS in six locations across Paris on Friday night.

Also yesterday, two Air France flights from the US to Paris were diverted because of security concerns.

An Airbus A-380 that departed Los Angeles landed in Salt Lake City, where passengers and crew were being deplaned and transferred to the terminal, an FAA spokesman said.

Another flight from Dulles International Airport outside Washington was diverted to Halifax International Airport in Nova Scotia ecause of an unspecified security concern.