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Several hostages have been freed and an armed man has been killed after a siege at a kosher supermarket ended in eastern Paris today. | |
Police confirmed earlier that hostage-taker Amedy Coulibaly, 32, is now dead after holding several hostages for over four hours at the Jewish-run Hyper Kacher supermarket in the Paris suburb of Porte de Vincennes. | |
Reports say that two of the hostages were killed during the siege. | |
Live images from the area showed emergency services flooding the building following the police operation. | |
The news followed reports of six explosions as police entered the building. | |
Watch the siege unfold live below | |
Earlier, French media had reported that an armed man entered the Jewish-run supermarket in the Paris suburb at around 1pm and took at least five hostages. | |
Police earlier announced that they were pursuing Amedy Coulibaly in connection with the Paris siege, as well as Hayat Boumeddienne. | |
The news of the death of Coulibaly came within moments of police reporting that Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi the chief suspects in the Charlie Hebdo killings had also been killed. |