Inside WORLD : PARIS TERROR ATTACK.Gunmen have shot dead 12 people at the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in an apparent militant Islamist attack. Four of the magazines well-known cartoonists, including its editor-in-chief, were among those killed, as well as two police officers. Charlie Hebdo editor Stephane Charbonnier, 47, had received death threats in the past and was living under police protection. French media have named the three other cartoonists killed in the attack as Cabu, Tignous and Wolinski, as well as Charlie Hebdo contributor and French economist Bernard Maris.A major police operation is under way to find three gunmen who fled by car. President Francois Hollande said there was no doubt it had been a terrorist attack of exceptional barbarity. The masked attackers opened fire with assault rifles in the office and exchanged shots with police in the street outside before escaping by car. They later abandoned the car in Rue de Meaux, northern Paris. Witnesses said they heard the gunmen shouting we have avenged the Prophet Muhammad. With the three suspected attackers still on the loose, Paris remains in a state of high alert. Follows us : insideworld.wix/insideword facebook/Adioinsideworld https://twitter/insideworld2000 — at Inside WORLD.
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 21:29:19 +0000
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