Police: Charlie Hebdo attack suspects appear to have hostageTwo brothers suspected of killing 12 people in an attack on satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday appear to have taken a hostage, a French police official said Friday.

Xavier Castaing, chief spokesman for Paris regional police, spoke as a massive operation unfolded in the town of Dammartin-en-Goele, about 25 miles northeast of Paris, where the brothers were believed to be holed up.

 
Helicopters and hundreds of security forces accompanied by ambulances have arrived in the town, which is around 7 miles from Charles de Gaulle Airport.
Earlier Friday, the suspects, Cherif Kouachi, 32, and his older brother Said, 34, stole a Peugeot car and were on the move again, a French security official told the Associated Press. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because situation was still developing. Shots were fired.
Thousands of police officers are involved in a manhunt for the brothers.
The two were on a U.S. no-fly watch list, said a U.S. official who was not authorized to speak on the case publicly. One of them, Said, traveled to Yemen in 2011, raising the prospect that he had training or direction, the official said.
France extended its maximum terror alert from Paris to the northern Picardie region, focusing on several towns that might be safe havens for the two suspects, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said Thursday.
A third suspect, Hamyd Mourad, 18, surrendered at a police station early Thursday in Charleville-Mezieres, a small town in France's eastern Champagne region, Paris prosecutor's spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre said.
Mourad's role in the attack, if any, remains unclear. The teenager has an alibi, telling authorities he was at school at the time, the BBC reported.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder will travel to Paris this weekend to attend an International Ministerial meeting Sunday. The French minister of the Interior called the meeting in response to the attacks. The meeting will include discussions on addressing terrorist threats, foreign fighters and countering violent extremism.