French police were on Thursday sifting through the wreckage from a huge raid targeting the suspected mastermind of the Paris attacks as lawmakers prepared to vote on extending a state of emergency, AFP reports.

Investigators have yet to confirm whether the body of Abdelhamid Abaaoud was among the rubble of an apartment block after a seven-hour siege in a northern district of Paris on Wednesday.

At least two were killed in the operation - a woman thought to have blown herself up with a suicide vest and another body found riddled with bullets, according to Paris prosecutor Francois Molins.