A third body has been found in an apartment raided by police searching for suspects in last week's Paris attacks, prosecutors said.

The prosecutors' office said in a statement that the body is that of a woman but her identity is unclear.

Authorities earlier identified one of the others killed in Wednesday's raid in Saint-Denis as suspected mastermind of the massacres on Friday, Abdelhamid Abaaoud.

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