Reports: Female accomplice in French attacks may have traveled through Turkey to Syria

Hayat Boumeddiene, the common-law wife of a gunman who took a Paris kosher supermarket hostage on Friday, may now be in Syria, The Associated Press reports.

A Turkish official says authorities believe Boumeddiene flew to Istanbul on Jan. 2, then traveled onward into Syria on Jan. 4.

"She then disappeared," the official adds.

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Authorities have said that Boumeddiene is an accomplice of husband Amedy Coulibaly, who was killed when French security forces carried out a raid on the supermarket. Coulibaly's attack was linked to that of Said and Cherif Kouachi, brothers who murdered 12 people at satirical publication Charlie Hebdo's offices on Wednesday.