Paris (CNN)Even as a nationwide hunt continues for two men who attacked French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, another tense confrontation unfolded for police in the southern suburbs of Paris on Thursday morning.
A
police officer was shot there, and she died. And about 20 heavily armed
police have an apartment building surrounded, pushing crowds back from
the area.
Witnesses said the gunman,
dressed in black like the Charlie Hebdo attackers and apparently wearing
a bulletproof vest, got out of a car as police officers were dealing
with a traffic accident and fired at two of them. The suspect hasn't
been captured.
It is unclear whether Thursday's shooting in the Montrouge suburb is related to the Wednesday attack.
Police
have arrested several people in connection with the shooting at the
offices of France's Charlie Hebdo magazine in central Paris, in which 12
people were killed and 11 wounded.
But the prime suspects in Wednesday's brazen attack, Cherif Kouachi, 32, and Said Kouachi, 34, remain on the run.
Police fanned out across France on Thursday, looking for the pair. A third suspect turned himself in.
"They
are still free, they are heavily armed, so we can be afraid of further
violence," French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said in an interview with
French broadcaster RTL.
Latest updates at 6:26 a.m. ET
- Crowds gathered in the rain in Paris to mark a moment's silence to honor those killed in the attack on Charlie Hebdo magazine. Many held up media passes and broke into applause as the silence ended. The bells of Notre Dame Cathedral tolled across the city.
- French President Francois Hollande observed the minute of silence from the police headquarters in Paris.
- Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy called on "civilized people," whatever their faith, to unite "against barbarism" after the attack.
- The two police officers killed in the Wednesday attack have been identified as Ahmed Merabet and Franck Brinsolaro.
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