Two suspects believed to have been involved
in Wednesday's attack on a satirical
magazine's office have been killed northeast
of Paris, while a gunman who took several
hostages at a supermarket in the east of the
capital is also dead.
At least four hostages held at the kosher
grocery store in Porte De Vincennes also died
on Friday as police stormed the site, it was
unclear who had killed them.
Police said that the grocery store gunman had
threatened to kill the hostages if police
launched an assault on two brothers holed up
in Dammartin-en-Goele who were suspected
to be behind the attack on the Charlie Hebdo
office in Paris.
The brothers - identified as 32-year-old Said
Kouachi and 34-year-old Cherif Kouachi - died
in a simultaneous operation in the French
town, where they had been cornered by police
inside a printing house after taking a hostage.
The hostage was unharmed.
Police say the brothers came out of their
hideaway with guns blazing, and were killed in
a shootout.
Officers earlier reported the brothers as
saying they wanted to "die as martyrs".
Grocery suspect
Earlier on Friday, police said that a man
named Amedy Coulibaly was the primary
suspect in the kosher store siege. His
girlfriend Hayat Boumeddiene was also named
as a wanted suspect and accomplice.
Police said that Coulibaly had links with one
of the Kouachi brothers.
Coulibaly is also suspected of being the same
gunman who killed a policewoman in a
shooting in Mountrouge in southern Paris on
Thursday.
The dramatic events on Friday followed a
nationwide manhunt after 12 people were
killed when masked gunmen attacked the
office of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on
Wednesday.
Source: Al Jazeera and agencies
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