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Charlie Hebdo hunt: Police storm two hostage sites | Charlie Hebdo hunt: Police storm two hostage sites |
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French police have stormed two hostage sites in Paris and north of the city, with the hostage takers reported dead. | |
Explosions were heard at a warehouse in Dammartin-en-Goele, where two suspects in the Charlie Hebdo magazine shootings had been holding one hostage. | |
Explosions and gunfire could also be heard at a supermarket in eastern Paris, at Porte de Vincennes, where several hostages were held. | |
Reports suggest a gunman there was linked to the Charlie Hebdo suspects. | |
After the operation started, several hostages could be seen leaving the supermarket. | After the operation started, several hostages could be seen leaving the supermarket. |
Police told French media that four hostages in the supermarket had been killed prior to security forces storming the site. | |
The hostage at the warehouse in Dammartin has been freed, while a police officer at the scene was injured, AFP news agency said. | |
Twelve people were shot dead and 11 were injured in Wednesday's attack on the office of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical magazine. | |
The unprecedented attack shocked France and there has been an outpouring of sympathy and solidarity worldwide. | |
The two suspects of the Charlie Hebdo shootings, brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, had been on the run for two days, before being surrounded at the Dammartin warehouse on Friday. | |
French police said they came out firing, at which point police stormed the warehouse. |