'Shots Fired' As Paris Suspects 'Located'

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Shots have been fired at a petrol station where the two suspects in the Charlie Hebdo magazine attack have been spotted, according to French media.

A massive manhunt is under way for the gunmen who killed 12 people in an assault at the magazine's Paris offices on Wednesday.

AFP reported a source who said two men fitting the description of brothers Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi were seen by the manager of a petrol station near Villers-Cotteret in the northern Aisne region, east of Paris, this morning.

Le Parisien said men wearing balaclavas were travelling in the direction of Paris in a Renault Clio which was also carrying firearms.

Officials have said the French nationals are linked to a Yemeni terror network.

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Gallery: Suspects On The Run Are Located

The Kouachi brothers

On Wednesday night heavily armoured French police raided an apartment in the city of Reims in the search for the killers.

French officials said seven people were detained overnight.

Another suspect handed himself in to police after he was named on social media as Hamyd Mourad, 18.

Sky sources say the teenager, who has been arrested, is the brother-in-law of the suspects.

There are reports that he was in school at the time of the attack and schoolmates have said he was on the bus with them at 7.30am and midday on Wednesday.

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Gallery: Police Carry Out Raid In Reims

Police have carried out raids in the Croix-Rouge area of the French city of Reims following the massacre at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo

They are hunting two men, Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, suspected of carrying out the attack which left 12 people dead

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A police officer aims his weapon during the raid

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French prime minister Manuel Valls said seven people had been arrested in connection with the attacks

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As tensions remain high in the country, an elite police unit is preparing for an operation near the scene where a female police officer was fatally shot in southern Paris overnight.

Earlier a "criminal" blast was reported at a kebab shop near a mosque in the eastern French town of Villefranche-sur-Saone. No one was injured.

Officials have not said either incident is linked to the attack on Charlie Hebdo.

Tributes to the victims have been left near the scene of yesterday's shooting at the magazine's offices while thousands of officers have reportedly been deployed in the hunt for the killers.

A minute's silence was held in the French capital for the victims of the attack.

Charlie Hebdo has been targeted in the past over its portrayal of the Prophet Mohammed.

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Gallery: Magazine Victims Identified

Bernard Maris was a journalist and shareholder in Charlie Hebdo

Bernard Velhav was a contributer to the magazine. Pic: Georges Seguin

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In Wednesday's attack, masked gunmen armed with Kalashnikov rifles and a rocket-propelled grenade stormed the offices and called out their victims by name before opening fire during a morning editorial meeting.

The gunmen were let inside by a female employee who was threatened at gunpoint along with her daughter and forced to punch in a security code.

The editor and a cartoonist, who went by the pen names Charb and Cabu, were among those killed.

Two police officers were also among the dead, including one assigned as Charb's bodyguard after he had received death threats and another who was shot in the head as he lay wounded outside the offices.

An editorialist at the magazine had said next week's issue will be published despite the bloodbath.

The publication, for next Wednesday, is to defiantly show that "stupidity will not win," Patrick Pelloux said, adding that the remaining staff will meet soon.

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Gallery: The Pencil Is Mightier Than The Gun

Cartoonists all over the world have been picking up their pencils to show their support for the murdered artists on Charlie Hebdo magazine. This was by Carlos Latuff, posted on @LatuffCartoons latuffcartoons.wordpress.com

By David Pope @davpope. Political cartoonist at The Canberra Times

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In the wake of the attack the British Government said there would be no change to the UK terror threat level which is already at "severe".

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