Paris attacks: Police search suspects’ premises

Police probing Friday’s attacks in Paris have been searching premises they believe were used by the attackers.

A car rented by Salah Abdeslam, the suspected eighth gunman who is now the subject of an international manhunt, is also being inspected.

He or his brother Brahim, named as another attacker, are thought to have rented a flat and two hotel rooms.

The so-called Islamic State (IS) group says it carried out the multiple attacks in which 129 people died.

Officials say that 117 of the victims have now been identified.

A Belgian-registered black Renault Clio was found parked near Montmartre in northern Paris. After police sealed off the area and ensured there was no booby-trap, the vehicle was towed away for forensic examination.

salah-abdeslamInvestigators believe the car may have been used to bring the attackers to and from Belgium, from where French authorities say the attacks were organised.

Images on French media of one of the hotel rooms being examined show syringes and tubes which could be bomb-making equipment.

Salah Abdeslam is believed to have fled across the border to his native Belgium. Belgian police have released more pictures of him.

Salah and Brahim’s brother Mohamed Abdeslam gave an interview to a French TV station in which he called on Salah to turn himself in.

French media reports say that police are hunting for a second fugitive in connection with the attacks, but this has not been confirmed by officials.

On Tuesday French media reported that a French jihadist, Fabien Clain, had been identified as the voice in a recording issued by Islamic State in which it said it had carried out the attacks.

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