Police launch assault on suspected Paris killers
In the hunt for the two brothers, security forces and helicopters have been focusing their efforts on the town of Dammartin-en-Goele, a 12 kilometer (seven mile) drive from Charles De Gaulle Airport. Police cordoned off an industrial estate, and French news channel France 24 reported that 1,000 officers were involved.
The two brothers have been cornered by police inside a printing house in Dammartin-en-Goele. One police officer told The Associated Press that the suspects told negotiators they "want to die as martyrs."
Separately, there has been a shootout at a kosher supermarket on Friday in eastern Paris, with reports of casualties and several people taken hostage, French prosecutors told reporters.
A police official has told reporters that the gunman held up inside the kosher store is believed responsible for the roadside killing of a Paris policewoman on Thursday. Authorities released a photo of him and a female accomplice but were unclear about her whereabouts.
The gunman has apparently threatened to kill his hostages if police launch an assault on the cornered brothers suspected in the newspaper massacre, an un-named police official police has told The Associated Press.
Police have closed down a ring road that circles Paris near the kosher supermarket, which would have busy ahead of the approaching sundown.
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