Paris terrorist attack: manhunt for Charlie Hebdo shooting suspects moves north of Paris
- 9 years ago
The manhunt for two at-large suspects involved in the Charlie Hebdo terror attack continued Thursday in the Picardy region of France.
A third suspect, Hamyd Mourad, turned himself over to authorities Wednesday night after hearing his name linked to the deadly shootings at the office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris.
Cherif Kouachi, 32, and Said Kouachi, 34, are said to be armed and dangerous. Several towns in the Picardy region—near the Belgium border—were put on lockdown while police searched house after house for the brothers, who are thought to be responsible for the attack that took twelve lives Wednesday morning.
The search intensified in the Picardy region after a grey Renault Clio, matching the description of the car the brothers hijacked after the shooting, was spotted at an Avia gas station near the town of Villers-Cotteret. Two witnesses said they saw two armed men resembling the suspects steal gas and food from the station.
Soon after the sighting, police surrounded a farmhouse in Longpont, and some reports said police had the suspects surrounded. After several hours, however, the search came up short.
Police also searched every house in the nearby village of Aisne. Several media outlets also reported police in head-to-toe gear had approached Foret de Retz around 5 p.m. As of 10 p.m., police were searching a large cave in Foret de Retz, where they said they believed the brothers were hiding earlier in the day.
Two other incidents were under investigation as of Thursday night. A 27-year-old policewoman was shot dead while on duty in Montrouge, a suburb of Paris. Officials said the shooting did not appear to be connected to the Charlie Hebdo attacks, but that it was being treated as a terror attack.
Officials also investigated an explosion at a kebab restaurant near a Mosque in eastern France. Unconfirmed reports stated the explosion was the result of a fault in the electrical system of a car. No injuries have been reported.
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A third suspect, Hamyd Mourad, turned himself over to authorities Wednesday night after hearing his name linked to the deadly shootings at the office of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris.
Cherif Kouachi, 32, and Said Kouachi, 34, are said to be armed and dangerous. Several towns in the Picardy region—near the Belgium border—were put on lockdown while police searched house after house for the brothers, who are thought to be responsible for the attack that took twelve lives Wednesday morning.
The search intensified in the Picardy region after a grey Renault Clio, matching the description of the car the brothers hijacked after the shooting, was spotted at an Avia gas station near the town of Villers-Cotteret. Two witnesses said they saw two armed men resembling the suspects steal gas and food from the station.
Soon after the sighting, police surrounded a farmhouse in Longpont, and some reports said police had the suspects surrounded. After several hours, however, the search came up short.
Police also searched every house in the nearby village of Aisne. Several media outlets also reported police in head-to-toe gear had approached Foret de Retz around 5 p.m. As of 10 p.m., police were searching a large cave in Foret de Retz, where they said they believed the brothers were hiding earlier in the day.
Two other incidents were under investigation as of Thursday night. A 27-year-old policewoman was shot dead while on duty in Montrouge, a suburb of Paris. Officials said the shooting did not appear to be connected to the Charlie Hebdo attacks, but that it was being treated as a terror attack.
Officials also investigated an explosion at a kebab restaurant near a Mosque in eastern France. Unconfirmed reports stated the explosion was the result of a fault in the electrical system of a car. No injuries have been reported.
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