PARIS: As many as 11 people were killed when gunmen attacked the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.
Media reports quoted Fresh officials as saying that 10 other have been injured in the attack.
It said that the attackers opened with assault rifles at the office. The satirical weekly has courted controversy in the past with its take on news and current affairs.
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Its latest tweet was a cartoon of the Islamic State militant group leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
An eyewitness, Benoit Bringer, told French TV channel Itele: “Two black-hooded men entered the building with Kalashnikovs. A few minutes later we heard lots of shots.”
The men were then seen fleeing the building.
“It’s carnage,” French police official Luc Poignant told another French channel, BFMTV.
The magazine was fire-bombed in November 2011 a day after it carried a caricature of the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).
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