The Charlie Hebdo gunmen were today exchanging fire with police as they held hostages on an industrial estate near a Paris airport.
At least two people are thought to have been killed and several wounded before Cherif and Said Kouachi entered business premises in the village of Dammartin-en-Goele, north-east of the capital.
They are believed to have taken hostages with them into a storage unit, which is now surrounded by police commandos who have begun negotiations to try to secure their release.
MailOnline understands the police were initially planning to storm the industrial zone, but have now decided to hold off.
As helicopters hovered overhead, France's Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said: 'A police operation is underway.'
Flights into the nearby Charles de Gaulle international airport have been aborted due to its proximity to the siege, around five miles away.
The suspects were holed up in a small printing business named Creating Trend Discovery, a source close to the investigation said. 'It's not sure how many people are inside,' the source said.
Prior to the standoff, the suspects had hijacked a Peugeot 206 in Montagny-Sainte-Felicite from a woman who said she recognised them as the wanted men, a police source said.
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