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Paris shooting manhunt live: Both Charlie Hebdo suspects and kosher grocery store hostage taker all dead after simultaneous police assaults

Live updates as police continue search for Cherif and Said Kouachi in north-west France

Rose Troup Buchanan,Steve Anderson,Roisin O'Connor
Friday 09 January 2015 09:18 GMT
Members of the French gendarmerie intervention forces arrive at the scene of a hostage taking at an industrial zone in Dammartin-en-Goele
Members of the French gendarmerie intervention forces arrive at the scene of a hostage taking at an industrial zone in Dammartin-en-Goele (Reuters)

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The two men who killed 12 people at the offices of French magazine Charlie Hebdo are dead after two days on the run, along with a man who murdered four hostages at a Kosher supermarket in Paris.

As France reels from three days of bloodshed, police chases and armed sieges, here are the latest updates:

A gunman is holding at least five people hostage at a kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes in eastern Paris
A gunman is holding at least five people hostage at a kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes in eastern Paris
Siege is underway in Dammartin-en-Goële (highlighted in red, top-right)
Siege is underway in Dammartin-en-Goële (highlighted in red, top-right)

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