At Least Two Killed in France Hostage Nightmare

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PARIS — Two days after the mass shooting that killed 12 people at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a man armed with a machine gun has murdered at least two people and is holding others hostage at a busy kosher supermarket located Porte de Vincennes.

As the most dramatic manhunt in French history is playing in real time, French media is pushing the limits of wall-to-wall coverage to capture this second terrorist attack, a nightmarish hostage situation. The schools surrounding the area, which has a large Jewish population, have been quarantined. Nearly a hundred of police agents armed with automatic weapons have been deployed.

More to come.

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