French police release mugshots of man and woman linked to Montrouge attack

Paris: French police released mugshots of a man and woman wanted over the killing of a policewoman on Thursday, who are now thought to be holed up with hostages in an east Paris kosher grocery.

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They were named as Amedy Coulibaly, 32, and Hayat Boumeddiene, 26, and are considered ‘armed and dangerous’. At least two people have been killed in the stand-off at the grocery store, according to official sources.

A heavily armed man, killed a policewoman Thursday in Montrouge, south of Paris and a council employee was injured in the attack. The gunman in the latest hostage-taking in Vincennes is suspected of being the same man who killed the policewoman, according to a source.