Paris Attacks: Manhunt Launched for 8th Terrorist; Police Detain Relatives of Gunman as Probe Widens

An international manhunt has been launched for 26-year-old Belgium-born Abdeslam Salah, believed to be the eighth attacker involved in terrorist attacks that killed 129 people in Paris.

Security sources said two of his brothers were also involved and that one of the brothers died in the Bataclan concert hall, while the other has been arrested in Belgium.

It is understood Salah is the only attacker still alive.

French police detained relatives and friends of one of the terrorists following the wave of attacks which has been claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.

Key points:

• Police search for Abdeslam Salah, believed to be eighth attacker
• Two brothers of Salah also involved in attack - one dead, one arrested
• French police detain friends and relatives of terrorists

The first attacker to be named was 29-year-old Omar Ismail Mostefai, who was identified from a severed finger among the carnage at the Bataclan concert hall, the scene of the worst of the bloodshed with 89 killed.

French media said he was French-born and of Algerian descent.

French prosecutor Francois Molins said the man had a security file for Islamist radicalisation, adding that he had a criminal record but had never spent time in jail.

Police detained six people close to Mostefai, including his father, brother and sister-in-law, judicial and police sources said.

The holder of a Syrian passport found near the body of one of the gunmen passed through Serbia last month where he sought asylum, the Serbian interior ministry said.