Cherif and Said Kouachi, suspects in the Charlie Hebdo attack, were killed by French forces during a standoff Friday. Amedy Coulibaly, a gunman at a Paris market, was killed in another standoff. French elite forces stormed two hostage sites Friday, killing the brothers behind the Charlie Hebdo massacre and a jihadist accomplice in a fiery end that also claimed the lives of four hostages. The killings brought a dramatic close to three days of terror and high tension that began Wednesday when the two heavily armed Kouachi brothers burst into the satirical magazines office and slaughtered some of Frances best-loved cartoonists. As shots and explosions rang out in the City of Light, five people, including the gunman, were found dead in the aftermath of the assault on a Jewish supermarket in eastern Paris and several captives were freed, security sources said. Gunmen at both sieges told French TV they were acting together in the name of al-Qaeda in Yemen and the Islamic State group. Seven people, including three police, were hurt in the supermarket raid with officers carrying some of the terrified hostages clear from the scene in their arms.
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 20:17:55 +0000
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