Police in Paris have brought two separate hostage standoffs to an end, reportedly killing the two brothers who were accused of the shooting massacre earlier this week at the offices of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
The Kouachi brothers were held up in a print works to the north of Paris, and were holding a hostage when police stormed the building.
The authorities also moved to rescue hostages who were being held in a kosher supermarket by an alleged sympathizer of the Kouchis….that gunmen and at least 4 hostages died in the operation.
Reporter Simon Conway witnessed the end of the siege in Dammartin-en-Goele where the Koachi brothers were holed up.
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Benedicte Paviot, a reporter with France 24 television, says there was also drama in Paris as police moved in to the kosher supermarket where hostages were held for several hours.
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