Plans for new attack on Paris foiled as IS 'mastermind' killed by French police

There were claims last night that the IS member who masterminded last Friday’s attack on Paris leaving 129 dead, was himself killed in a shootout at a suburb where a terrorist cell was planning a new attack on the city’s business district.

French SWAT teams swooped and neutralised the cell at the suburb of St Denis at around 4.20am, firing 5,000 rounds during a prolonged battle that left at least two people dead, including a woman who detonated an explosives belt.

The raid had targeted the suspected planner of the attacks, 27-year-old Abdelhamid Abaaoud.