Investigators identify 2 suspects in Paris attacks

Flowers at a memorial outside the Bataclan concert hall in Paris
(Image credit: Miguel Medina/AFP/Getty Images)

After a series of six terrorist attacks in Paris on Friday night killed at least 129 people, investigators started searching Europe for information about the seven suicide bombers and others who may have helped plot the attacks.

French investigators identified Ismaël Omar Mostefaï, a 29-year-old French citizen, as one of the three suicide bombers taking hostages at the Bataclan concert hall Friday, The New York Times reports.

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Julie Kliegman

Julie Kliegman is a freelance writer based in New York. Her work has appeared in BuzzFeed, Vox, Mental Floss, Paste, the Tampa Bay Times and PolitiFact. Her cats can do somersaults.