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Killers and suspects after Paris attacks

France and Belgium have launched a massive manhunt for people involved in the attacks that killed at least 129 people in Paris.

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SOME OF THE SEVEN ATTACKERS WHO DIED

DEAD ATTACKERS:

* ISMAIL OMAR MOSTEFAI, 29, Frenchman of Algerian descent involved in Bataclan concert hall attack. Name was put on French intelligence services' "S notice" in 2010 for reported radicalisation. Investigators suspect he went to Syria in 2013.

* SAMY AMIMOUR, 28, Frenchman involved in Bataclan attack. Subject of international arrest warrant since 2013. Had been under official investigation since October 2012 on suspicion of terrorism-related activity over a plan to go to Yemen. Believed to have gone to Syria in 2013.

* BRAHIM ABDESLAM, 31. Brother of Salah Abdeslam, the key suspect who is still at large. Frenchman but resident of Belgium. Blew himself up at Comptoir Voltaire cafe in Paris.

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* BILAL HADFI, 20. Suicide bomber involved in Stade de France attack.

* AHMAD AL MOHAMMAD, 25 from Idlib, northwest Syria. Suicide bomber involved in Stade de France attack. Passport being checked but fingerprints match up with print of a person registered under that name in Greece in October 2015.

KEY SUSPECTS AT LARGE:

* ABDELHAMID ABAAOUD, the suspected mastermind of the attacks. Belgian resident of Molenbeek district of Brussels. Media in Belgium said Abaaoud had been involved in a series of planned attacks in Belgium foiled by the police in January.

* SALAH ABDESLAM, 26, French, born in Brussels. Suspected of having rented black VW Polo car used in attacks in Paris.

ARRESTED

*BELGIUM: Two of seven people arrested in November 14 raids were detained on terrorism charges. Mohammad Abdeslam, brother of Salah and Brahim (dead), was among five released after preliminary questioning.

*FRANCE: Police arrested 25 people in broad swoops on suspected Islamist militants on Sunday night.

SOURCE: prosecutor's office, judiciary sources


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