Operation underway to detain suspected Charlie Hebdo attackers

Thousands of French police and miliary commandos are swarming into Dammartin-en-Goele, and Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said that an operation is taking place to capture the brothers suspected of carrying out the Charlie Hebdo massacre.

Cazeneuve's comments came after an emergency meeting with the president, prime minister, and top police official, The Associated Press reports. A security official told AP that earlier the brothers stole a Peugeot amid gunfire. The suspects have at least one hostage, and at least one person was killed in the gunfire before the current standoff at an industrial building, Reuters reports, citing a police source. (Update: The Paris prosecutor's office denies the report that anybody has been killed.)

Dammartin-en-Goele is about 25 miles northeast of Paris, not far from Charles de Gaulle Airport.

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