Rabat - The two suspects in the Charlie Hebdo attack are reported to have been killed.
BREAKING: Police official: Suspects in Charlie Hebdo massacre killed, hostage freed.
— The Associated Press (@AP) 9 Janvier 2015
According to the Direction Générale de la Gendarmerie Nationale, the suspects have been killed and a hostage freed on an assault by the GIGN, the French counter terrorism unit.
Several blasts were heard from the warehouse where the Kouachi brothers, the main suspects in the Charlie Hebdo massacre, had secured themselves with a hostage.
One police officer was injured in the assault on the warehouse in Dammartin-en-Goele in the outskirts of the French capital, AFP reported.