Terror police swarm through forest in north east France in hunt for Paris killers

Anti-terrorism police have converged on a village north east of Paris after two brothers suspected of being behind the Charlie Hebdo magazine attack were spotted at a petrol station in the region. A massive manhunt is under way for the gunmen who killed 12 people in an assault at the magazine’s Paris offices on Wednesday. French news agency AFP reported that two men fitting the description of brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi stole fuel and food from the station near Villers-Cotterets in the northern Aisne region, 70km away from Paris, on Thursday morning.

It’s an incessant waltz of police cars and trucks.

Crepy-en-Valois Mayor Bruno Fortier

The men are now thought to be in Crepy-en-Valois, 16km from the petrol station, where there is a high police presence. In nearby Abbaye de Longpont, police are reported to be going house-to-house. RAID, the anti-terrorist unit of the French police force, and the GIGN, a paramilitary special operations unit, have been deployed in the region. Earlier on Thursday, a police woman was shot dead and a road sweeper left critically injured in what police have called a “second terror attack” in Paris.

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