Charlie Hebdo suspects killed, store hostages freed – reports

Smoke is seen at left as French police special forces launch their assault at a kosher supermarket (seen at rear) where several people were taken hostage near the Porte de Vincennes in eastern Paris January 9, 2015.(Reuters / Gonzalo Fuentes)

The two suspects in the Charlie Hebdo massacre are reported to have been killed in Dammartin-en-Goele. Meanwhile, their hostage has been freed, as have the hostages being held in a grocery store in Paris.

Several loud blasts were heard and smoke has been rising over the printworks in the industrial zone north east of Paris.

Police take up a position on a roof in Dammartin-en-Goele, north-east of Paris, where two brothers suspected of slaughtering 12 people in an Islamist attack on French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo held one person hostage as police cornered the gunmen, on January 9, 2015.(AFP Photo / Dominique Faget)

Security forces had the building surrounded for most of Friday before the explosions happened.

The National Gendarmerie Intervention Group (GIGN), a special operations unit of the French Armed Forces, launched the assault, reported Le Figaro.

The Hebdo suspects emerged firing on security forces, reported an AFP source. One policeman was reportedly injured in the operation. However, he is not in a critical condition.

Meanwhile, the hostages who were held at the grocery store in Porte de Vincennes in Paris are being released. The hostage taker is reportedly dead, after special forces entered the building and killed him, according to Le Monde.