According to Aljazeera news two suspects believed to have been involved in Wednesday's attack on a satirical magazine's office have been killed northeast of Paris, while a gunman who took several hostages at a supermarket in the east of the capital is also dead.
At least four hostages held at the kosher grocery store in Porte De Vincennes also died on Friday as police stormed the site, it was unclear who had killed them.
Police said that the grocery store gunman had threatened to kill the hostages if police launched an assault on two brothers holed up in Dammartin-en-Goele who were suspected to be behind the attack on theCharlie Hebdo office in Paris.
The brothers - identified as 32-year-old Said Kouachi and 34-year-old Cherif Kouachi - died in a simultaneous operation in the French town, where they had been cornered by police inside a printing house after taking a hostage. The hostage was unharmed.
Police say the brothers came out of their hideaway with guns blazing, and were killed in a shootout.
Officers earlier reported the brothers as saying they wanted to "die as martyrs".
Grocery suspect
Earlier on Friday, police said that a man named Amedy Coulibaly was the primary suspect in the kosher store siege. His girlfriend Hayat Boumeddiene was also named as a wanted suspect and accomplice.
Police said that Coulibaly had links with one of the Kouachi brothers. Meanwhile, Said Kouachi was believed to be trained by the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula armed group, which operates in Yemen.
Coulibaly is also suspected of being the same gunman who killed a policewoman in a shooting in Mountrouge in southern Paris on Thursday.
The dramatic events on Friday followed a nationwide manhunt after 12 people were killed when masked gunmen attacked the office of Charlie Hebdo in Paris on Wednesday.
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