Per The Guardian
There are two hostage situations going on near Paris related to the Charlie Hebdo attack.
Scores of armed police officers have surrounded an industrial estate in Danmartin-en-Goele, northeast of Paris, where the Charlie Hebdo gunmen have taken one person hostage.
The suspects took over a printworks after a shootout with armed police officers, sparking a major operation involving Swat teams and military helicopters.
Police are said to have opened hostage negotiations with the suspects as armed officers seal off the town, with schools on lockdown and residents told to stay indoors.
A local MP told French media that the two suspects declared to police negotiators that they wanted to die as martyrs.
Several people were taken hostage at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris on Friday after a shootout involving a man armed with two guns, a police source said.
There were unconfirmed local media reports that the man was the same as the one suspected of killing a policewoman in a southern suburb of Paris on Thursday which has now been lnked to the first attack.
A police source had told Reuters earlier he was a member of the same jihadist group as the two suspects in Wednesday’s attack at weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
6:06 AM PT: The police have named two suspects wanted in connection with the second siege at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris.
They are Amedy Coulibaly and Hayat Boumeddiene. Boumeddiene, who has just been named by the police as a suspect, is the former partner of Amedy Coulibaly who is reported to be holding hostages at the kosher supermarket siege
6:39 AM PT: Links :Coulibaly and Cherif Kouachi were two of the most committed followers of convicted terrorist Djamel Begha.l .
7:40 AM PT: AP is reporting that the gunman at the kosher market in eastern Paris has threatened to kill his hostages if police launch an assault on the cornered brothers suspected in the Charlie Hebdo attack.
8:14 AM PT: There were rounds of gunfire and several explosions heard at the printworks where the brothers have been holed up this afternoon. The gunfire came minutes after armed counter-terror officers were seen traveling towards the building.
8:24 AM PT: Sky News reports six quick explosions from the kosher supermarket in east Paris. This may indicate a coordinated assault by authorities on both sets of suspects ensconced at the print works and the supermarket.
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