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Terror shootings and hostage crisis in France as police close in on attackers

Terror shootings and hostage crisis in France as police close in on attackers

By :  DC Correspondent
Update: 2015-01-07 12:41 GMT
Armed police officers in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris on Friday January 9, 2015. Brothers suspected in a newspaper terror attack were cornered with a hostage inside a printing house on Friday, after they hijacked a car and police followed
French President Francois Hollande leaves the Elysee Palace after a shooting at a French satirical magazine, in Paris (Photo: AP)
People stand outside the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo's office after a shooting, in Paris (Photo: AP)
French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, center left, and Paris' mayor Anne Hidalgo, center right, arrive at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo's office, in Paris (Photo: AP)
Police officers and firemen gather outside the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo's office, in Paris (Photo: AP)
An injured person is treated by nursing staff outside the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo's office, in Paris (Photo: AP)
Police officers and firemen gather outside the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo's office, in Paris (Photo: AP)
An injured person is transported to an ambulance after a shooting, at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo's office, in Paris (Photo: AP)
An injured person is transported to an ambulance after a shooting, at the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo's office, in Paris (Photo: AP)
The car used by armed gunmen who stormed the Paris offices of satirical newspaper (Photo: AFP)
The gunmen proceeded to hijack a car and drove off after shooting 12 people dead (Photo: Screengrab)
The gunmen shot and injured a bystander and then one of them shot the person point-blank in the head (Photo: Screengrab)
The two gunmen are seen firing rapidly at a bystander in this screengrab.
The two armed gunmen are seen hijacking a car in this video screengrab.
Mourners gather during a rally in support of Charlie Hebdo (Photo: AP)
Mourners attend a rally in support of Charlie Hebdo (Photo: AP)
People hold signs that read in Portuguese and French "We're all Charlie" and "I am Charlie" during a gathering in solidarity with those killed in an attack at the Paris. (Photo: AP)
A cartoon tribute drawn by MacLeod was released in solidarity with those killed in an attack at the Paris offices of the weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo (Photo: AP)
Frontpages of French newspapers reporting about Wednesday's attack on a satirical magazine in Paris are displayed in Paris (Photo: AP)
Members of the European Parliamnet show a signs that read: 'Je suis Charlie (I Am Charlie)', during a gathering to pay respect for the victims of Wednesday's terror attack in Paris, in front of the European Parliament in Brussels (Photo: AP)
Journalists and supporters of press freedom show off signs reading "Je Suis Charlie (I Am Charlie)" during a gathering to pay respects for the victims of a terror attack against French magazine Charlie Hebdo, in Paris, outside The Foreign
A French flag flies at half mast at the Elysee Palace in Paris (Photo: AP)
A French flag flutters after being erected with flowers outside the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris (Photo: AP)
Flowers lay at the Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris (Photo: AP)
Coloured pencils and flowers to commemorate the victims killed in an attack at the Paris offices of the weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo (Photo: AP)
A pen sits on a poster reading 'I am Charlie' placed between candles to commemorate the victims killed in an attack at the Paris offices of the weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo, in front of the French Embassy in Berlin (Photo: AP)
Shots were fired as the brothers stole a car in the early morning hours, said a French security official, who could not immediately confirm reports of hostages taken or deaths later in the day in the town about 40 kilometers (25 miles) northeast of
A gendarme blocks the access to Dammartin-en-Goele to ensure nobody interferes with the investigation.
Armed security forces fly overhead in a military helicopter in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris (Photo: AP)
French security forces swarmed this small industrial town northeast of Paris Friday in an operation to capture a pair of heavily armed suspects in the deadly storming of the magazine.
British police dog handlers speak to people as they patrol St Pancras train station in London, where the Eurostar train runs to Paris.
Armed security forces fly overhead in a military helicopter in Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris.
French President Francois Hollande, center, listens to prime minister Manuel Valls, left, as interior ministry Bernard Cazeneuve, right, addresses the media at the Interior Ministry.
French President Francois Hollande, right, is escorted by police officers and aides as he leaves the Elysee Palace to walk to the nearby Interior Ministry, for a meeting with Prefects and interior minister Bernard Cazeneuve.
A military helicopter flies over Dammartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris. Investigators are scrutinizing the recent past of two brothers with al-Qaida sympathies, as a manhunt for the suspects in the newsroom massacre at a satirical French magazine
People hold up placards reading “I am Charlie” after workers installed a giant poster for victims of the shooting at the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, on the Cannes Festival Palace southeastern France.
Terror shootings and hostage crisis in France as police close in on attackers

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