what caused this young woman to join them? we went to the french neighborhood where which she lived searching for answers. reporter: these were the last words of hasna. earlier, police had said the 26-year-old had detonated an explosives vest as police closed in. but now, forensics teams determined that the bomb was actually triggered by either the alleged ring leader or the other so far unidentified suspect killed in the operation. investigators are now struggling to understand how a young woman described as modern and fun loving veered into the path of the deadly terrorist network. until weeks ago, she lived here with her family. police brought her mother and brother in for questioning on thursday. we re in the neighborhood where she was living. it s a rough neighborhood at the best of times.
mentioned there? was she a cousin? some reports suggesting she was a cousin. they have named her as hasna. that is the first name i have seen circulating there. this is unconfirmed. the other aspect of the story is two people were killed there, not least the woman who blew herself up but another man as well. but the fire power and damage in that building is so bad and so heavy that they can t actually tell if two people died there or three. and they certainly can t identify them based on physical appearances because the bodies are riddled with bullets. the building is riddled with bullets there was an explosion. they have a difficult job on their hands identifying who those people were and that s a job for the forensic teams. any indication of how long that will take? no indication of this stage. the forces here in france come up with answers first because the general public up to until this point has been pretty understanding
during the raid this morning was in fact a cousin of the linchpin, or the suspected linchpin of the terrorist attack last friday, abdelhamid abaaoud. now, there are two major newspapers here in belgium who have made that allegation. they say that the source of that information came from morocco s intelligence. well, now, they even posted a picture of let me just call her hasna. they put out the surname, but because nbc news has not confirmed that, i m not going to give out the surname just yet. they put out a picture of hassna wearing a hijab and looking quite menacing. they say it was a cousin from the mother s side, she was 26, but we ll have to wait for confirmation of that, chuck. claudio, hopefully we ll find out more and how involved folks in belgium were in this plot as well. thank you very much. the u.s. military said coalition forces carried out 29
near hasna, the village of hasna. the crash happened or at least the plane disappeared at 6:20 in the morning. who found the crash initially were air force jets from the egyptian air force. they were the ones that spot the it. this northern part of sinai is a militarized zone. egyptian security forces are battling an insurgency there. now, that being said, we don t know what the cause of this crash is. right now we re hearing that it s more likely to be technical issues. but if it is in this area, it will make it difficult for security personnel to get to it as they do have this insurgency to contend with. we re also hearing that this is a mountainous area which will also make it difficult for any sort of rescue operation. right now egyptian officials say that if there are any survivors,
remarkable. hearing now there may be voices coming out of the wreckage and survivors giving some of these families hope this their loved one, at least some of them may be alive. again for us, do we know how many people have been recovered at this point by authorities and taken away? so far they have recovered around 100 bodies that are all being taken to the hospital and the morgue. but, yeah, these are the only reports coming out so far. this sounds like this aircraft essentially crashed in one piece then. it wasn t spread over a very large piece of land then? no. so far what we re hearing, again, is that the airplane split into two parts. so, the wreckage is quite i mean the diameter of the wreckage shouldn t be too big. all right. we appreciate joining us this morning and bringing us the latest from hasna where