In France, there are two rapidly developing hostage situations. AFP reports quoting one source, that at least two people were shot dead today during a hostage-taking drama at a Jewish supermarket in eastern Paris, where at least five people were being held .

French officials suspect a man responsible for the murder of a policewoman in the street of a southern Paris suburb yesterday could be the hostage-taker. It was not immediately clear whether there was a link between that gunman and the two suspects wanted for 12 killings at the Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly on Wednesday.

French anti-terrorist police has sealed off a small northern town and helicopters hovered overhead after a police source said two men, believed to have carried out an attack on Charlie Hebdo, took at least one person hostage in a small print works. Meanwhile, French police release mugshots of man and woman linked to policewoman killing.