Charlie Hebdo shooting suspects, 4 hostages killed in separate raids

Two brothers suspected to be behind Wednesday's attack on the headquarters of the French Satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo have been killed along with another gunman and four hostages in a separate raid.

According to The Huffington Post, police targeted the brothers Cherif and Kouachi inside a printing house in Dammartin-en-Goele where the suspects had been holed up.

According to reports, the brothers said to the police that they wanted to die as martyrs.

The suspects were killed after they started open firing outside the building.

Police also killed a gunman in another raid at Kosher supermarket in Paris who opened fire and took many people hostage. The gunman identified as Amedy Coulibaly had killed four people as he entered the supermarket and was believed to have links with the brothers.

The raid at the market freed the 15 hostages, according to an Israeli official,

The woman accomplice of Coulibaly, however fled from the area while police is still hunting for her.