Three terror suspects, including two brothers suspected in the massacre at Charlie Hebdo magazine, were killed Friday in twin hostage standoffs in France, authorities said. Police launched simultaneous raids: one on a printing factory northeast of Paris, where brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi took a company manager hostage, and another on a kosher supermarket in Paris, where a third suspect, Amedy Coulibaly, held over a dozen people hostage in what French President Francois Hollande called "a terrible anti-Semitic act." The hostage at the printing factory was unharmed, but four hostages at the supermarket were killed before the raid, Paris Prosecutor Francois Molins said. The Kouachi brothers are suspected of slaughtering 12 people at Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday in France's worst terror attack in decades. Authorities suggested Coulibaly was connected to the brothers, although they did not immediately say how. French authorities were still looking for Hayat Boumeddiene, a woman believed to be Coulibaly's accomplice. The two are suspected in the killing of a policewoman in Paris on Thursday. Meanwhile, a purported member of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula claimed Friday that the group directed the Charlie Hebdo attack — the latest revelation in a spasm of terror that has gripped France for more than two days.
