Suspects in “Charlie Hebdo” Attack Possibly Spotted Near Forest

ABC News(PARIS) — Police in head-to-toe tactical gear and wearing body masks gathered near a forest outside of Paris today as the manhunt continued for the two suspected terrorists who killed a dozen people on Wednesday.

Individuals resembling the suspects were seen in Villers-Cotterêts, near Forêt de Retz, a 51-square-mile forest where police now searching, the French interior minister said.

The forest, dating back to the time of Julius Caesar, is 50 miles east of a town where an apartment was searched Wednesday night, and Crépy-en-Valois, which police sealed off earlier on Thursday.

French police say the suspects — identified as Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, brothers who are both in their 30s — are “on the loose, armed and dangerous.” A third suspect, Hamyd Mourad, 18, is cooperating after his surrender in the French town of Charleville-Mezieres, about 140 miles north of Paris, police said.

Paris Deputy Mayor Patrick Klugman told ABC News that two of the assailants went inside the offices of Charlie Hebdo and listed off the names of their targets before shooting them execution-style. The third man was waiting outside the building, Klugman said.


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