PARIS: A police official on the scene of the standoff between two armed brothers suspected in the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo newsroom says the suspects are dead, and their hostage has been freed.
Security forces launched a major assault on the building late Friday afternoon.
A few minutes later, several people were seen being led from the kosher market in eastern Paris where another gunman had taken hostages.
Separately, Le Monde newspaper quoted a police official as saying that the hostage-taker at a separate stand-off at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris had also been killed. That hostage-taker is believed to have links to the same Islamist group as the two brothers.
French television images showed some people running out of the supermarket in eastern Paris. The exact fate of all the hostages there and at the one at the print works was not immediately clear.
Paris hostage-takers killed, captives freed: Police
Paris hostage-takers killed, captives freed: Police
