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Police Source: Jihadist Takes Hostages At Paris Kosher Supermarket

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PARIS (Reuters) – Several people were taken hostage at a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris on Friday after a shootout involving a man armed with two guns, a police source said.

There were unconfirmed reports that the man was the same as that suspected of killing a policewoman in a southern suburb of Paris on Thursday. A police source had told Reuters earlier he was a member of the same jihadist group as the two suspects in the attack at weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo.

(Reporting by Gerard Bon and Emmanuel Jarry; Editing by Mark John)