Paris attacks mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud killed

Paris prosecutor's office confirms that Abaaoud was killed in the counter attack launched by the police on Wednesday

Paris attack mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud was killed in Wednesday's raid, Paris prosecutor's office has confirmed, reports CNN.This has been confirmed through DNA analysis of the remains of those dead after French police carried out a chaotic and bloody attack on an apartment in a Paris suburb on Wednesday.

Police launched the operation after receiving information from tapped phone calls, surveillance and tipoffs suggesting that Abaaoud was holed up there.

Earlier in the day, Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins said the identities of the dead are still being investigated, but that neither Abaaoud nor another fugitive, Salah Abdeslam, is in custody.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls is warning that the associates of extremists who targeted France last week could use chemical and biological weapons, as he urged Parliament to extend a state of emergency.

Valls presented a bill extending the state of emergency declared after Friday's attacks for another three months to the lower house of Parliament on Thursday. It goes to the upper house tomorrow.

Valls said "terrorism hit France, not because of what it is doing in Iraq and Syria ... But for what it is." He added, "we know that there could also be a risk of chemical or biological weapons.