Bomber was 'extrovert'

20 November 2015 - 02:33
By ©The Daily Telegraph

To her friends and neighbours she was bubbly and outgoing, if a bit "clueless". But on Wednesday morning Hasna Aitboulahcen, 26, became Europe's first woman suicide bomber as police stormed the flat where she was holed up with two fellow Islamic State terrorists.One of the two men killed in the siege was thought to be her cousin Abdelhamid Abaaoud, the mastermind of Friday's attacks in Paris which left 132 dead.

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