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A journalist has revealed how she was spared death by the terrorists who attacked Charlie Hebdo because she is a woman.

Reporter Sigolène Vinson survived yesterday's attack on the Paris office of the weekly French satirical magazine in which 12 people, including two police officers, were shot dead.

Ms Vinson told Radio France Internationale that one of the killers aimed his gun at her but decided against taking her life.

She said the man told her: “I’m not killing you because you are a woman and we don’t kill women but you have to convert to Islam, read the Qu'ran and wear a veil.”

She added that as the man left, he shouted “Allahu akbar, allahu akbar."

Cartoonists Georges Wolinski, Stephane Charbonnier, Bernard Verlhac and Jean Cabut were among 10 employees gunned down during an editorial conference at the magazine's office.

Charbonnier, 47, became editor of Charlie Hebdo in 2009.

To date, none of the gunmen have been apprehended.