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Charlie Hebdo suspects killed
Reports say that hostages have been freed while the two Kouachi brothers are believed to have been shot dead
Photo of the supermarket where a dozen hostages were released. (Photo: Armin Arefi/Twitter)
Several hostages freed at Jewish supermarket in Paris. Photo Thomas Samson #AFP pic.twitter.com/C9ltgMT0Wl
— AFP Photo Department (@AFPphoto) January 9, 2015While Twitter is flooded with posts that the two Kouachi brothers – suspected of having opened fire at the Charlie Hebdo offices were 12 people were killed – have been shot dead, news is emerging that the hostages have been freed.
Reuters has also quoted government sources Charlie Hebdo suspects in Dammartin-en-Goele killed in assault by security forces. According to AFP, the suspects came out firing.
Two hostage situations unfolded in France, one in Paris and north of the city. The three hostage takers have been killed.
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.
BREAKING: Hostage taker at Kosher supermarket siege in eastern Paris dead: Le Monde http://t.co/MK4AastvZD
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) January 9, 2015BREAKING: French media reporting two suspects of #CharlieHebdo attack are killed | More at: http://t.co/jKrAfvH9sT pic.twitter.com/oaZH2sz6fO
— Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) January 9, 2015Reports suggest a gunman there was linked to the Charlie Hebdo suspects. 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.
BREAKING: Two Charlie Hebdo attack suspects in Dammartin-en-Goele killed by security forces: govt source. http://t.co/oZmSoaIueK
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) January 9, 2015Sky News reported six quick explosions from the kosher supermarket in east Paris which may indicate that a coordinated assault by authorities on both sets of suspects ensconced at the print works and the supermarket.
Sky News also reported that gunshots were heard at the Dammartin-en-Goele factory where brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi were holed up with a 26-year-old male hostage.
A Sky News reporter, who is on the scene, reported hearing several bursts of gunfire that lasted about 10 second. “Since then we’ve heard four or five explosions,” reporter Ian Woods said.
Several ambulances have been seen travelling at speed in the area of the factory complex following the explosions, close to the outskirts of Paris and near to Charles De Gaulle airport.
The two terror suspects had been surrounded at the print works for several hours.
