Paris attacks: Third body found in flat raided by police
Source: BBC News
A third body has been recovered from the apartment in the Paris suburb of Saint-Denis raided by police after last Friday's attacks, prosecutors say.
They confirmed the body was that of 26-year-old Hasna Aitboulahcen, and was found overnight in a search of the flat following Wednesday morning's raid.
Hasna Aitboulahcen is widely reported to have been the cousin of Abdelhamid Abaaoud, and blew herself up.
Abaaoud, the suspected ringleader, was also killed in the raid.
The near-simultaneous attacks by suicide bombers and gunmen on bars and restaurants, a concert hall and sports stadium last Friday killed 129 people and left hundreds of people wounded.
Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34877800
Could this be the missing explosives expert still being sought?
StrayKat
(570 posts)I think the explosives expert turned himself in already.
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/paris-attacks-isis-bomb-maker-mohammed-khoualed-hands-himself-police-1529599
The suspected explosives expert behind the Paris attacks has handed himself in to police, it has been reported. Mohammed Khoualed, who is from Roubaix in northern France, is thought to have assembled the explosives and detonators in the suicide vests, used by the terrorists, who killed 129 people in Paris on Friday 13 November.
PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)judging by the star-shaped marks on the outer walls of the apartment.
Elmergantry
(884 posts)if something that is supposed to go threw several inches of steel cant pentetrate that wall.
William Seger
(10,779 posts)PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)just minor surface pitting from the round case.
PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)most of the energy is directed with the penetrating jet, usually Copper.
We did a test with an RPG-7 against an Aluminum-bodied step-van. The blast cut a ragged 100 or so mm hole in the Aluminum, jet didn't even bend the metal. the blast pattern to the side looked much like the damage to the walls. It consisted of tiny fragments of alloy from the RPG body striking the surface with very little penetration.
These type of weapons are effective in penetrating Masonry walls to hit shooters hiding behind, as well as penetrating Steel.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)?
PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)I was standing about 3 feet to the right of the shooter.
Nitram
(22,890 posts)"pieces of third body found..."
flamingdem
(39,328 posts)or dental work. Yeech
muriel_volestrangler
(101,367 posts)Police sources now say that the suicide bomber was in fact a man, not 26-year-old Hasna Ait Boulahcen.
Her cousin, alleged ringleader Abdelhamid Abaaoud is also confirmed to have died in the raid.
A third body was also found which is still being identified.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-34885606