First attacker identified from Paris carnage

November 15, 2015 12:23

French police have identified the first of seven gunmen who killed at least 129 people in a wave of carnage claimed by the Islamic State group, as

international investigators stepped up their probes into Paris's worst ever attacks.

French authorities yesterday named the first attacker as 29-year-old Omar Ismail Mostefai, who was identified from a severed finger found at Bataclan concert hall, scene of the worst of the bloodshed.

IS jihadists said they were behind the gun and suicide attacks that left a trail of destruction at a sold-out concert hall, at restaurants and bars, and outside France's Stade de France national stadium.

President Francois Hollande called the coordinated assault on Friday night an "act of war" as the capital's normally bustling streets fell eerily quiet, 10 months after attacks on magazine Charlie Hebdo shocked the nation.

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