FRENCH police were last night trying to identify a third body found in an apartment raided by police searching for suspects in last week's Paris atrocity.
As the French government confirmed the death toll in the Islamic State attacks has risen to 130, the prosecutors' office said the body found in a flat in Saint-Denis is that of a woman.
But her identity was still unclear last night.
Authorities have identified two of the three killed in Wednesday's raid in Saint-Denis as the suspected mastermind of last Friday's massacres, Abdelhamid Abaaoud (27) and his cousin Hasna Aitboulahcen (26).
It had been thought that Aitboulahcen blew herself up in the raid, but police sources told French media last night that the suicide bomber was a man, believed to be Abaaoud.
Prime minister Manuel Valls said later that one more person had died as the result of the attacks in Paris, raising the total to 130. The count does not include any of the attackers who died.
He made the announcement as the country's senate voted to extend a state of emergency for three months following last week's deadly attacks.
Meanwhile, European Union countries have pledged to quickly tighten border security to prevent more extremists from entering the bloc.
French interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve and the other EU interior and justice ministers used an emergency meeting to push for the next steps to increase security and prevent more bloodshed.
"We have talked enough. We have to act. It's not an option, it's an obligation," said Luxembourg's domestic security minster Etienne Schneider, who chaired the meeting in Brussels.
France and Belgium urged their EU partners to tighten gun laws, toughen border security and choke off funds to extremist groups.
"Terrorists are crossing the borders of the European Union," said Mr Cazeneuve.
He said the EU must move forward on a long-delayed system for collecting and exchanging airline passenger information.
The EU exchanges such information with the US, Australia and Canada, but has proved incapable of agreeing a system for sharing data between its own members.
France has called for inter-European flights to be included in the data sweep and wants the information it retains - names, credit card details, itineraries and other personal data - to be kept for a year instead of a month.
Belgian authorities on Friday released seven people detained a day earlier, but continued to hold one person suspected of links to the Paris attacks and another linked to French stadium bomber Bilal Hadfi.
French President Francois Hollande's office said he will lead a national ceremony on November 27 honouring the victims.
Mr Hollande is also going to Washington and Moscow next week to push for a stronger international coalition against IS.
