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PHOTOS: Terror grips streets outside grocery shop in Paris

January 09, 2015 20:07 IST

Hours after Paris police cornered two gunmen, who were responsible for the Charlie Hebdo killings, at a printing press in Dammartin-en-Goele, two other gunmen took 5 people hostage at a kosher grocery store in Porte de Vincennes, eastern Paris.

French police forcibly stop at gun point young people on a scooter as they arrive near the scene of a hostage taking at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris. Photographer: Youssef Boudlal/Reuters

French police take down the young people on a scooter in eastern Paris. Photograph: Youssef Boudla/Reuters

French intervention police are seen at the scene of a hostage taking at a kosher supermarket (seen in rear) in eastern Paris. Photogrpher: Charles Platiau/Reuters

Police arrive with guns at Port de Vincennes. Photographer: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images

French police stand on the Paris ring road near the scene of a hostage taking at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris. Photographer: Charles Platiau/Reuters

French soldiers patrol near the Eiffel Tower in Paris as part of the highest level of 'Vigipirate' security plan. Photographs: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters

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