(Image source from: Abdelhamid Abaaoud)

In a statement, the Paris prosecutor said that the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks, a 28-year-old Belgian militant Abdelhamid Abaaoud, was one of those who were killed in a police raid in a suburb of Paris.

Last week, the terror attacks killed 129 in the French capital. Abaaoud boasted for the IS of mounting attacks in Europe. The militant was even accused of orchestrating the coordinated bombings as well as shootings last Friday in Paris.

Initially, it was though that Abdelhamid Abaaoud was in Syria. Later the investigations revealed his presence in a house in the Paris suburb of St. Denis. Before dawn, the building was stormed with heavily armed officers and triggered a massive firefight and multiple explosions.

The Paris prosecutor’s office said, “Abdelhamid Abaaoud has just been formally identified... as having been killed during the raid.” The lawmakers decide to place the state of emergency for three months from November 26.  The MPs also voted in favor of blocking the websites by the government under the state of emergency. Meanwhile, France Prime Minister Manuel Valls has warned about a chemical or biological attack.

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Even though the ‘Master Mind’ behind Paris attacks is killed, many questions remain alive. Few of them include.

•    How were the attacks planned and organized?
•    Are there any additional assaults being planned by the IS outside its stronghold in Syria and Iraq?
•    What are the identities of at least two other attackers?

-Sumana