At French police arrest young people on a scooter as they arrive near the scene of a hostage taking at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris on Jan. 9, 2015. (Youssef Boudlal/Reuters)
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PARIS — A gunman seized a kosher grocery store Friday and took hostages in a second standoff as officials outside the French capital surrounded the country’s most-wanted terrorist suspects.
The AFP news agency reported at least two people were killed.
French media said at least five people were taken captive. The Associated Press, citing police sources, said there were “multiple” hostages.
It was not immediately clear whether the hostage-taking was linked to this week’s bloodshed that has put the country on edge.
But the suspect in the fatal shooting of a policewoman on Thursday remained at large. Authorities also said there appeared to be a “connection” between the slaying and the terrorist storming of a satirical newspaper on Wednesday that left 12 people dead, AFP reported.
Riot police set up positions near the grocery in Porte de Vincennes on the eastern outskirts of Paris. Helicopters passed overhead, and ambulances raced to the scene.
According to a police source cited by France 24 television, at least one person had been wounded at the store Hyper Cacher, or Hyper Kosher.
Outside Paris, thousands of police cornered the two suspects in the attack at the newspaper Charlie Hebdo.
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