sense of security. abby back r al baghdadi did this in a town where al qaeda and iraq had strapped suicide bomb vests to i think they were mentally disabled, a 13-year-old girl and 3-year-old girl in the early days of the u.s. war in iraq and walked into a police station or military check point and blew themselves up. they were not volunteers but this is the point. when you see a woman you re supposed to think she can t possibly commit an act of terrorism but it happens all the time. scary sight. paul, is it known how this female cousin of abdelhamid abaqoud, the so-called mastermind of the friday night terror attacks in paris, how she was involved if she was involved in this terror cell? well, wolf, investigators are
cnn learned abdelhamid abaqoud was spotted on cc tv footage at the same time the attacks were going on at a metro station in the paris suburb, that s the same area a car was found abandoned. abaaoud was killed in a raid wednesday. one of nearly 800 raids around france in the past five days. the siege lasted more than seven hou hours. here you can see the police advancing before the final confrontation that also killed his female relative. trench authorities say a third body, an unidentified male has been found in the rubble of the apartment building among the devastation. translator: in under two hours, heavily armed and meticulously prepared terrorists killed mergelessly injuring
let s go to paris and the manhunt and it s been a week despite nearly 800 raids. nic robertson is in paris for us. what are you learning tonight? reporter: wolf, i think there have been a couple significant developments through the day, salah abdeslam still on the run, questioned where is he? no one knows. there have been questions, was he the third man killed by police in that raid in saint-denis. 5,000 bullets fired and was he the third man police say three people died in that apartment? it s not clear. the interesting detail that we have learned that clears up if you will or gives us a more complete picture of the events of last friday night is the ringleader abdelhamid abaqoud, his, he was seen on cc tv
exploding during that raid on an apartment in suburban paris and authorities say it was a man wearing the suicide vest that detonated but they have not identified him. we have correspondents, analysts and news makers standing by. we re covering all the news breaking now. first, let s go to our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. what are you learning about the radison hotel attack and the death of that american? this confirmation just coming in, confirmation one american killed in this hostage siege and the state department warning that it s possible that u.s. casualties from that attack could rise. we do know that at this point they believe that all u.s. government workers there have been accounted for. they are still doing their count at this hour, regardless. it is one more measure of the extend and reach that isis groups, that al qaeda-tied groups can show their power far beyond their borders.
the stade de sprafrance, two ofm passed through the same processing point in greece on october 3rd more than one month ago, raising new questions about just how these terrorists exploited the refugee crisis perhaps to move into this country prior to the attack. wolf. more shocking information coming in. all right, john berman, thank you very much. let s bring in our senior international correspondent clarissa ward who s also in paris for us. clarissa, we saw this suicide explosion in the new abc video. we re now also learning she did not necessarily detonate that bomb. what more are you learning about this female relative of abaaoud? what was her role? well, to be honest, wolf, we really don t know very much. we know that she s 26 years old. that her name was hasna aitboulahcen. she s believed to be the cousin of abaaoud. and for days, for two full days it was believed that she was the one who had detonated that