Investigators sorting through body parts from a flat raided by French police on Wednesday now believe Hasna Ait Boulahcen, the woman who died there, was not the one wearing a suicide belt, a source close to the investigation said, reports ABC News.
Headlines flashed around the world this week that Ait Boulahcen had become Europe's first woman suicide bomber, after officials said they believed she had blown herself up at the scene of the raid in a northern Paris suburb.
Two other people died at the flat in Saint-Denis on the city's outskirts after Ait Boulahcen, believed to be the cousin of suspected Paris attacks mastermind Abdelhamid Abaaoud, took him there on Tuesday evening (Paris time).
One of the dead has been confirmed as Islamist militant Abaaoud. The other has yet to be identified.
Police had been hunting Abaaoud since the killing of 130 people in Paris last weekend which was claimed by Islamic State, and which they believe he orchestrated.
"The initial findings from the special police indicated that it (the suicide belt wearer) was her," said the source.
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