French security officials allegedly killed one suspect and arrested two others, believed to be responsible for the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris, where 12 people including two policemen were shot dead.
A US official said the three suspects of French-Algerian descent were apprehended during a raid in the northern French town of Reims, according to NBC News.
Two of the men, brothers, were identified as Said Kouachi, 34, Cherif Kouachi, 32, and the youngest suspect Hamyd Mourad, 18.
The gunmen attacked the headquarters of France’s leading satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, with assault rifles on Wednesday, killing the magazine’s editor and chief cartoonist Stéphane Charbonnier and 11 others.
