MORE: Gunman at Paris grocery store and 3 hostages dead in police raid, police officials say: http://t.co/bu4ZhuZyx7
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 9, 2015
French security forces on Friday stormed two sites where jihadis had been holding hostages, killing the two Charlie Hebdo massacre suspects and a third man who was holding captives in a kosher supermarket, French media reported.
Multiple news reports also said that brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi were killed after they ran from a printing plant near Charles de Gaulle Airport and opened fire on security forces with Kalashnikov rifles — the same type of weapons they used to kill 12 people in the newspaper attack Wednesday.
The suspect in the grocery siege, Amedy Coulibaly, was also killed. He is believed to be the gunman who fatally shot a female police officer in a Paris suburb Thursday, and was part of the same terror cell the Kouachi brothers belonged to.
The two brothers linked to al Qaeda took a hostage early Friday and were cornered by police inside a printing house in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris. They are believed to be responsible for the attack that decimated Charlie Hebdo’s staff and left two police officers dead.
In addition, the police official said a gunman holding at least five hostages Friday inside a kosher grocery store in eastern Paris is believed responsible for the roadside killing of a Paris policewoman Thursday. Authorities released a photo of him and a female accomplice but were unclear about her whereabouts.
VIDEO: Gunshots ring outside Paris market in which police say at least four people have died in hostage situation: http://t.co/axhnFy4JaJ — The Associated Press (@AP) January 9, 2015
BREAKING: Police officials: At least 4 dead, including gunman, in Paris kosher grocery hostage crisis.
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 9, 2015
PARIS (AP) — Official: 2 terror suspects in French standoff came out shooting before being killed by police.
BREAKING: Police officer confirms Charlie Hebdo suspects dead, hostage freed at French siege in Dammartin-en-Goele
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 9, 2015
The hostages pictured leaving, after being held at the kosher market. [Photo: Getty Images]
The hostages pictured leaving, after being held at the kosher market. [Photo: Getty Images]
"Bangs heard from supermarket"
Multiple media reports that hostage-takers killed and hostages freed in both locations. Some special forces injured. - Storyful
BREAKING: Hostage taker at Kosher supermarket siege in eastern Paris dead: Le Monde http://t.co/MK4AastvZD
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 9, 2015
Hostages seen exiting kosher supermarket in eastern Paris [Photo: Getty Images]
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