Later, they exchanged fire with the police on a highway in the Seine-et-Marne, and took some people hostages.
The police confirmed that the criminals, who took an unknown number of hostages in an industrial estate in the city of Dammartin-en-Goele, are the Kouachi brothers, wanted for committing a terrorist act in the office of the Charlie Hebdo.
Previously, the newspaper Parisien reported that two people were killed, and another 20 were injured during an attempt to arrest the suspects.
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