At Least 10 Dead In Paris Shooting – French Media

File photo of a policeman standing guard outside the French satirical weekly "Charlie Hebdo" in Paris

Not less thanĀ 10 people were killed duringĀ a shooting at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, a satirical newspaper firebombed in the past after publishing cartoons joking about Muslim leaders, French TV channel iTELE reported. Reuters has more:

France Info radio also said police had confirmed a toll of 10 dead and five injured. Reuters had no immediate official confirmation of deaths.

The news channel quoted a witness as saying he saw the incident from a building nearby in the heart of the French capital.

ā€œAbout a half an hour ago two black-hooded men entered the building with Kalashnikovs (guns),ā€ Benoit Bringer told the station. ā€œA few minutes later we heard lots of shots,ā€ he said, adding that the men were then seen fleeing the building.

A police official, Luc Poignant, said he was aware of one journalist dead and several injured, including three police officers.

ā€œItā€™s carnage,ā€ Poignant told BFM TV.

A firebomb attack gutted the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo in November 2011 after it put an image of the Prophet Mohammad on its cover.

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