Friday, 9 January 2015

Charlie Hebdo Hunt :Paris Shooting suspects surrounded in Dammartin-en-Goele

French police have surrounded a building in a northern town where two men suspected of the Charlie Hebdo massacre are said to have a hostage.
Shots were fired and several people are said to have been wounded as events unfolded in Dammartin-en-Goele, 35km (22 miles) from Paris.
The development comes nearly 48 hours after the attack on the magazine's office, when 12 people were shot dead.
The heavily armed gunmen fled Paris by car after the attack.
The attackers, who shouted Islamist slogans, are believed to have been angered by the satirical magazine's irreverent depictions of the Prophet Muhammad.
They are said to have shouted "We are al-Qaeda, Yemen", an apparent reference to the al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula group (AQAP).
In the US, a senior official has told reporters that one of the two brothers alleged to have carried out the attack, Said Kouachi, spent "a few months" training in Yemen with the group.
Said and his younger brother, convicted terrorist Cherif Kouachi, were on a US no-fly list before the attack, a US counter-terrorism official told the New York Times.
It's a dramatic scene. The area around the small town of Dammartin is rapidly filling up with thousands of French police and anti-terror forces.
Several Puma helicopters are hovering over the area. Hundreds of police cars and armoured vehicles have arrived. Press were rapidly moved on from the area amid warnings of danger to onlookers.
Huge convoys of police line the main N2 highway.
There are now reports of flights being cancelled at nearby Charles de Gaulle airport.

In Dammartin, witnesses say police are protecting people in buildings close to where the siege is happening.
Officers from the elite GIGN unit have assembled people working nearby, telling them to stay inside and turn lights off while the operation is going on.
People in the area say police helicopters began arriving around 08:45 (07:45 GMT) followed by convoys of armed officers.
Some of those in premises in the industrial area where the suspects are cornered have been evacuated.
Police and military helicopters continue to hover low over the area, while lines of armed officers are guarding the edge of the national highway were traffic continues to flow.
Meanwhile, police are said to have have identified a suspect in Thursday's fatal shooting of a policewoman in Montrouge, south of Paris.
AFP news agency quotes a source close to the investigation as saying that two people in his immediate circle have been taken into custody.
   

Source:  bbc

No comments:

Post a Comment