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The manhunt for two suspects wanted over the massacre of 12 people in Paris at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo has reportedly narrowed to a town northeast of the French capital.
Helicopters were reported to be circling the town of Crepy-en-Valois after the pair abandoned their car and police and anti-terrorism forces were being deployed in large numbers.
Named Franco-Algerian suspects Said Kouachi, 34, and Cherif Kouachi, 32, were earlier reported by French media to be heading towards Paris along the RN2 highway, which runs between Paris and the French-Belgian border, tracked by military and police helicopters.
The manager of a service station in Aisne, northeast of Paris, earlier reported seeing the heavily armed pair in a gray Renault Clio, according to French media.
The identities and photos of the pair were released by French police hunting the killers of the journalists, cartoonists and two police officers in the gun attack which shook France a day earlier.
French police would only disclose that the pair had "been located" and warned they were "armed and dangerous".
Policewoman shot dead
A third suspect, 18-year-old Hamyd Mourad, earlier walked into a police station in Charleville-Mézières, about 230 kilometers (145 miles) northeast of Paris, and surrendered.
French weekly political magazine Le Point reported it had seen documents showing Cherif Kouachi had associated with terrorist groups for years and was an associate of French Algerian Djamel Beghal, who was sentenced to 10 years in jail in 2005 for planning an attack against the U.S. embassy in France.
French prosecutors said they were also treating a separate shooting on Thursday, which left one policewoman dead in Montrouge, as a terrorist act, but said there was no link to date between the Montrouge shooting and Charlie Hebdo attack.
Several arrests were also made overnight on Wednesday after police carried out several raids in Reims, northeast of Paris, French Prime Minister Manuel Valls disclosed.
A surviving member of staff from Charlie Hebdo told the AFP news agency the publication would be published next week.
A minute of silence was held across France at midday on Thursday in remembrance of the victims of the Charlie Hebdo attack.
