​Paris hunt down those behind deadly attacks

Paris (IINA) - Several Kalashnikovs have been found in an abandoned car believed to have been used by some of the Paris attackers, French judicial sources said. The black Seat car used by gunmen who fired at people in restaurants during the attacks in Paris on Friday has been found in the eastern suburb of Montreuil, police said Sunday.
Six people close to Omar Ismail Mostefai, who took part in the killings at the Bataclan concert hall and the first of Friday's attackers to be identified, have been detained, including his father, brother and sister-in-law, judicial and police sources said. The body of the 29-year-old French national was found and identified at the Bataclan music hall where 89 people were shot dead Friday when three gunmen wearing suicide vests opened fire on spectators in the bloodiest of a string of attacks in Paris blamed on terrorists.
Earlier, the first of the seven dead attackers was named as Ismail Mostefai. Six people close to him are in custody. France is in three days of mourning for the 129 people killed in the attacks. Prime Minister Manuel Valls says 103 bodies have so far been identified and hoped the others will also be in the coming hours. A special service for the families of the victims, the 350 people who were wounded, and the other survivors will be held at Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral later on Sunday.
France's worst ever attacks killed at least 129 people and left 352 injured, many in critical condition. Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Sunday that 103 bodies had been identified, with 20 to 30 more still awaiting identification. “They will be (identified) in the coming hours,” said Valls outside the Ecole Militaire where a center has been set up for victims’ families. The death toll has been put at least 129. Investigators were also searching the homes of friends and relatives of Mostefai, another source close to the enquiry said. The father's house is located in the small town of Romilly-sur-Seine, some 130 kilometers east of Paris, while his brother's is south of Paris in the Essonne region.

The brother, who is 34, contacted the police on his own initiative and was then taken into custody. The Frenchman confirmed as one of the attackers was known to police as being close to radical Islam but had never been linked to a terrorism enquiry, Paris prosecutor Francois Molins said earlier Saturday. He was identified via a severed fingertip. Prosecutor Molins said seven gunmen were killed in the attacks, which were the work of three coordinated teams. Six of them blew themselves up while one was shot by police.
The attacks were claimed by extremist group ISIS, which France is targeting with airstrikes on Syria. Seven “terrorists” were killed in attacks that caused the deaths of the 129 people in Paris and a Syrian passport was found on one of the assailants, the French capital’s prosecutor said Saturday. Prosecutor Francois Molins said the attackers had worked in three teams, striking seven times in quick succession on Friday night. The prosecutor meanwhile said it was not clear to whom the passport belonged to.
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