Postpublished at 15:46 Greenwich Mean Time 9 January 2015
This shows the site of the Paris siege as well as this week's earlier attacks in the city:
Summary
French forces storm two separate hostage sites in and around Paris on 9 January, killing three hostage takers
Charlie Hebdo suspects Said and Cherif Kouachi killed at a printing warehouse north of Paris
One employee trapped in the printing works was rescued
Hostage-taker, named by officials as Amedy Coulibaly, also killed in assault on Paris supermarket
Four hostages killed and another four seriously injured at the supermarket, officials say
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Postpublished at 15:39 Greenwich Mean Time 9 January 2015
An image of the supermarket currently under siege in eastern Paris, with an unknown number of people held hostage inside by a gunman.
Image source, AFPGunman 'demand'published at 15:35 Greenwich Mean Time 9 January 2015
It is still as yet unclear if there is a link between the two hostage situations. However, French media is quoting police sources as saying that the hostage-taker at the supermarket in Porte de Vincennes is making demands for the release of the two suspects wanted over the Charlie Hebdo attack, who are still engaged in a tense stand-off with police in Dammartin-en-Goele.
Hollande-Merkel talks postponedpublished at 15:31 Greenwich Mean Time 9 January 2015
A meeting between French President Francois Hollande and the German Chancellor Angela Merkel, which was planned for Sunday in Strasbourg, is postponed amid the hostages crisis.
Postpublished at 15:29 Greenwich Mean Time 9 January 2015
Daniel Sandford
BBC Newstweets:, external A reliable source has confirmed to the BBC that Cherif and Said Kouachi were on the UK Warnings Index "and had been for some time."
Extremists 'insult Islam'published at 15:25 Greenwich Mean Time 9 January 2015
Hassan Nasrallah, the leader of the Lebanese Hezbollah group, has made a statement via video link, saying that Islamic extremists have insulted Islam and the Prophet Muhammad more than those who have published satirical cartoons mocking the religion.
He did not make a specific reference to the Charlie Hebdo attack in Paris but referred to Islamic State militants in Syria and Iraq, saying they had done more harm to Islam than anyone else in history.
Image source, EPA'Burst of gunfire'published at 15:23 Greenwich Mean Time 9 January 2015
Another eyewitness, named Golda, tells the BBC she was on her way to the supermarket under attack when she heard a "burst of gunfire". She sought refuge inside a nearby garage - where she has been holed up with several others for the last hour and a half.
"We can't really see what's on going at the supermarket because we can't see down there, but we are surrounded by the police and special forces," she tells BBC World TV.
BBC teams on the groundpublished at 15:21 Greenwich Mean Time 9 January 2015
Follow:
Lyse Doucet, Chief International Correspondent: @BBCLyseDoucet, external
Gavin Hewitt, Europe Editor: @BBCGavinHewitt, external
Lucy Williamson, Paris Correspondent: @LucyWilliamson, external
Fergal Keane, World Affairs Correspondent: @FergalKeane47, external
Chris Morris, Correspondent: @BBCChrisMorris, external
Christian Fraser, Correspondent: @ChristianFraser, external
Damian Grammaticas, Correspondent: @DNGBBC, external
Simon Wilson, Europe Bureau Editor: @Siwilso, external
Piers Schofield, Senior Europe Producer: @Inglesi, external
Natalie Morton, Senior Producer: @NatalieMortonTV, external
Imelda Flattery, Senior Producer: @ImeldaFlattery, external
Also in London with analysis:
Frank Gardner, Security Correspondent: @FrankRGardner, external
Gordon Corera, Security Correspondent: @GordonCorera, external
School lockdownpublished at 15:14 Greenwich Mean Time 9 January 2015
Michael Rudy, who lives across from the kosher supermarket in Porte de Vincennes, tells BBC World TV that police are evacuating nearby buildings. He says his son is at his school just 200m away, which is also in lockdown, and he has been unable to make contact with him as yet.
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In one hour (13:00-14:00 GMT) there were more than 20,000 tweets about the shootings in #vincennes using that hashtag.
A tweet, external by the Paris Police Department was the most retweeted, over, 1,400 times: "Avoid the area of #Vincennes Thanks #AlerteAttentat (translated)"
Evacuations around supermarketpublished at 14:57 Greenwich Mean Time 9 January 2015
French police have been helping people to leave the area around the kosher supermarket in the eastern fringes of central Paris.
Image source, Getty Images
Image source, APPostpublished at 14:41 Greenwich Mean Time 9 January 2015
All shops in the famed Jewish neighbourhood of the Marais in central Paris have been ordered closed by police, AP reports.
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Metro traffic around the Trocadero area has resumed after access to one of its subways was temporarily stopped, Le Monde reports, external.
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Police have closed down a ring road that circles Paris near the kosher supermarket in the French capital.
Image source, APTrocadero 'false alarm'published at 14:27 Greenwich Mean Time 9 January 2015
A police spokesperson tells the BBC that a possible incident reported at the Trocadero (near the Eiffel Tower in central Paris) is a false alarm.
Govt calls crisis meetingpublished at 14:22 Greenwich Mean Time 9 January 2015
Lisa Louis
BBC News, ParisThe government says a crisis meeting has been called at the presidential palace in Paris about the hostage-taking. The meeting will be attended by President Hollande, Prime Minister Manuel Valls, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve, and Justice Minister Taubira.
'Impossible task'published at 14:12 Greenwich Mean Time 9 January 2015
Arnaud Danjean, a former member of France's external intelligence agency, tells the BBC's Newshour programme it is close to impossible to keep an eye on all possible terror suspects.
"Of course, [the security forces] focus on the most dangerous people, [but] they cannot follow everyone. What is the case here is that these people - probably for a few years, at least for a few months, maybe for a few years - have disappeared or just were asleep. And reactivated very recently."
Nikolai Kleist Burkal, near east Paris shootingpublished at 14:01 Greenwich Mean Time 9 January 2015
Post on facebook:, external Okay, things are getting closer now I think there's another hostage situation quite near us at Porte de Vincennes! We can hear a helicopter and sirens just outside the window...this is crazy!
Breaking Newspublished at 14:00 Greenwich Mean Time 9 January 2015
Bruno Boelpaep
BBC News, Porte Vincennesreports that a police officer at the scene in Paris says two people are confirmed dead after a gunman (believed to be the killer of the police officer in Montrouge yesterday) entered a kosher supermarket in the Porte de Vincennes area of eastern Paris.
Postpublished at 13:41 Greenwich Mean Time 9 January 2015
Armed police have now sealed off the area around the kosher shop in Paris's Porte de Vincennes.
Image source, Getty Images