A gunman opened fire at a kosher supermarket in Paris on Friday, killing two people, and taking five others as hostage.
According to The Dawn, the gunman is suspected to be same man who killed a policewoman in southern Paris on Thursday.
The police have cordoned off the area and a helicopter is reportedly flying overhead at the scene of the crime. The Dawn states that the police have also named two suspects in connection with the siege: Amedy Coulibaly and Hayat Boumeddiene.
Coulibaly had earlier been convicted for attempting break convicted terrorist Djamel Beghal out of prison.
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