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Said and Cherif Kouachi (pictured), the two brothers, who have laid siege to France over the past two days, have been killed by the police.

The suspects murdered 12 people at the head office of Charlie Hebdo magazine in Paris on Wednesday and advanced to several other parts of the country until they met their waterloo.

Earlier on Friday, the police closed in on them, as they took a hostage and moved to Dammartin-en-Goele, a town, 35km form Paris.

In Dammartin-en-Goele, they took hostages at a grocery store where commandos and elite police holed them up in a bout of explosions, which led to the freedom of many hostages.

According to AP, the market shooter had earlier threatened to hurt the hostages if police raided the building where the Kouachi brothers were holed up, but the hostages taken were freed unhurt.

As night fell, explosions rang out and heavily-armed commandos made their move on a small printing firm in Dammartin-en-Goele northeast of Paris, killing the two massacre suspects. One police officer was injured.

The police also released a photo of the people responsible for the killing of a police woman and an attack on a municipal worker in Paris on Thursday.

They were identified as Amedy Coulibaly and Hayet Boumddiene. While Coulibaly has been killed at a Paris grocery store, Biumddiene is still at large.