The suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks, Abdelhamid Abaaoud, has been identified among the dead of Saint Denis raid, as French public prosecutor announced on Thursday.

A day after a raid conducted by French police forces , authorities announced that one of the terrorists killed is Abdelhamid Abaaoud . His body was found in the building in northern Paris.

The Belgian national, 27, was identified by his fingerprints, as BBC reports today.

The identification of the dead is quite hard, while it is still not known how many people were killed during yesterday’s raid.