Two people killed in Paris: Meeting between Hollande and Merkel postponed
A gunman has seized six hostages at a kosher supermarket in Paris as police have cornered the two Charlie Hebdo massacre suspects further north. A police officer told the BBC that two people were killed after a gunman believed to be the killer of a policewoman in Montrouge entered the supermarket near Porte de Vincennes. Armed police have flooded the area, BBC reports. French Interior Minister Bernard has arrived at the site of shooting. The gunman is believed to know one of the brothers suspected of the Charlie Hebdo attack. The meeting between French President Francois Hollande andGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel planned in Strasbourg Sunday has been postponed after a series of attacks in Paris, said a spokesman for European parliament president Martin Schulz. Armin Machmer, the spokesman for Schulz, who organised the meeting, said it has been delayed "because of the events" in France, where twin hostage dramas were playing out in the wake of the massacre Wednesday of 12 people at Charlie Hebdo satirical weekly. The leaders had been due to hold a meeting to "discuss the future of Europe" and the relationship between France and Germany. France has been gripped by fear in an already three-day drama that began when two gunmen stormed an editorial meeting at the satirical magazine and mowed down some of the nation's best-known cartoonists and two police officers. A day later a gunman shot dead a policewoman and injured another person south of Paris. He has now been identified as Amedy Coulibaly, 32, who is thought to be the gunman who on Friday was holding at least five people hostage at a Jewish supermarket after a shootout in which a source told AFP two people were killed.
