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Charlie Hebdo attack: Police surround suspects in northern France

PARIS: Police reportedly surrounded the armed suspects wanted in  the Charlie Hebdo attack  in northern France, after they were spotted there.

Media reports said that the men, believed to be brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi, are reportedly holed up in the commune of Crépy-en-Valois, around 80 km north-east of Paris.

Helicopters are hovering overhead and special forces have been deployed in the area after the pair allegedly robbed a nearby petrol station close to Villers-Cotterêt.

The station attendant claimed the suspects drove off in a white Renault Clio with covered number plates in the direction of Paris with ‘exposed Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers’ inside the vehicle.

The dramatic development came as the manhunt continued for the ‘armed and dangerous’ brothers who have links to terror groups stretching back almost a decade.

Their alleged getaway driver Hamyd Mourad, 18, has already turned himself into police in Charleville-Mezieres in northern France.

All three French-Algerian Muslims escaped yesterday following the bloodbath at the offices of the notoriously anti-Islamist satirical Charlie Hebdo newspaper in Paris.

 

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