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Sunday 15 November 2015

Paris Attack Update

Key points

- Two attackers were French nationals who lived in Brussels, prosecutors say

- Weapons found in abandoned car believed to have been used by attackers

- Seven people arrested in Belgium and six in France in connection with attacks

- One attacker identified as Frenchman Omar Ismail Mostefai

- Attacks 'carried out by at least seven gunmen in three coordinated teams'

- Passport found at scene passed through Greece in October

- 129 people were killed and 352 injured, 99 critically

The attacks were carried out by seven assailants in three coordinated teams, according to Paris chief prosecutor Francois Molins. Six of the seven blew themselves up with suicide vests and one was shot dead by police at the Bataclan music venue. One of the attackers has been identified by French media as 29-year-old Frenchman Omar Ismail Mostefai. Mostefai, from the southern Paris suburb of Courcouronnes, was reportedly identified by a fingerprint on a severed finger at the Bataclan. He was known to security services as having been radicalised. Mostefai's brother and father have reportedly been taken into police custody and had their homes searched. The investigation is focusing on a possible link to Belgium after police arrested three men near the French border. A black Volkswagen Polo with Belgian registration found at the Bataclan had been rented by a Frenchman living in Belgium, prosecutors say. Greek authorities say a passport found near the body of one of the Stade de France attackers was used by someone in Greece to register as a Syrian refugee. An Egyptian passport has also been linked to the attacks. The victims have begun to be identified. They include a Briton, Nick Alexander, who was selling merchandise at the Eagles of Death Metal concert at the Bataclan concert hall. The assailants killed 129 people and injured 352, 99 of whom are in critical condition - it was the worst peacetime attack in France since World War Two. French President Francois Hollande has imposed a state of emergency and authorised local authorities to impose curfews.

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