Paris massacre mastermind dead?

The suspected mastermind of Friday evening’s terror campaign across Paris was reportedly killed in an early morning raid on an apartment in a northern suburb of the French capital on Wednesday. François Molins, the Paris public prosecutor, said he could not confirm The Washington Post report and that the body of one of two people killed in the seven-hour siege has yet to be identified. If confirmed, however, the death of Abdelhamid Abaaoud would be a major coup for French law enforcement officials, who have conducted a manhunt in the days following Friday’s attacks, which killed 129 people across the city and wounded scores more. “The state of the body does not allow for identification,” Molins said at a Wednesday news conference hours after the raid in St. Denis/ The Hill . More here .