Hours after Paris police cornered two gunmen, who were responsible for the Charlie Hebdo killings, at a printing press in Dammartin-en-Goele, another gunman took 5 people hostage at a kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris.
According to French police, two hostages have already died.
The attacker was suspected of being the same gunman who killed a policewoman in a shooting in Montrouge in southern Paris on Thursday.
French police have now named two people suspected to have taken the hostages as Amedy Coulibaly, 33, and a woman named Hayat Boumeddiene, 26.
“There is a hostage situation - shots have been fired,” said a Paris police source, who said armed officers were attending the scene.
The French media reported that the gunman was carrying a Kalashnikov.
Police have surrounded the grocery store, which is located on the ground floor. Armed police threw a cordon across Cours de Vincennes at the junction.
A helicopter was also seen flying over a four block section of the district.
