French search teams surrounded a section of the town Dammartin-en-Goele northeast of Paris on Friday. There were media reports of a hostage-taking at a business in the same town, which is a few miles from Charles de Gaulle Airport, though Interior Ministry spokesman Pierre Henri Brandet tweeted that it's not confirmed whether or not anyone is being held.
Authorities have expressed a high degree of certainty that they have surrounded the Kouachi brothers - the suspects in Wednesday's killing of 12 people at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo - in Dammartin-en-Goele.
Convoys of police vans with blue lights flashing filled residential streets, and the nearby Meaux hospital sent a medical team to the town. An ambulance could be seen on the scene. Police armed with assault rifles held watch.
A local resident told CNN that Dammartin-en-Goele was on lockdown and that people have been told to shelter in place.
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