Paris attacks: Who was Hasna Aitboulahcen?

Hasna Aitboulahcen blew herself up when police raided the flat in Saint-Denis

French prosecutors have confirmed that Hasna Aitboulahcen, 26, was the woman who died when she blew herself up during a police raid on a flat in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis on Wednesday. The operation targeted the suspected ringleader of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud. The BBC's Tom Burridge met people who knew her.

Hasna Aitboulahcen's mother reportedly lived in a large block of flats in the Paris suburb of Aulnay-sous-Bois.

There were heavily armed masked police there on Thursday evening.

We met two women who knew her.

Khemissa, who went to school with her, says the Hasna she knew "loved life", but describes her former classmate as "vulnerable" and "fragile".

"I don't think she had the intention to be a suicide bomber," she says. "I don't think she planned it, it must have been a last-minute thing - she was influenced."

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She is said to have been a rather "lost soul", involved with drugs, with no real religious background, who only started wearing the veil a month ago.