Massacre gunmen, identified as brothers 'trained in Yemen as assassins', have been sighted in northern France

Manhunt is still underway for two of the suspects in the Charlie Hebdo shooting

Masked gunmen stormed offices with AK-47s shouting 'Allahu akbar!' and 'Prophet has been avenged'

New horror just hours after massacre of 12 at Paris magazine office - including two police officers

Attacker is said to have 'used an M5 assault rifle' before fleeing scene wearing a 'bullet-proof vest'


A French police officer shot and killed in the second horrifying gun attack on Paris's streets in less than 24 hours has been named as a 27-year-old rookie who 'dreamed of serving her country'.

The young policewoman who was gunned down as she attended a routine traffic accident in Montrouge at 8am today is called Clarissa Jean-Philippe, according to the French media.

She was unarmed and had only been in the job for 15 days. Police arrested two men over the killing tonight.

A second victim - a street cleaner who was shot in the face after he confronted the gunman - is said to be in a serious condition.

This shooting came less than 24 hours after the massacre at the Paris offices of Charlie Hebdo, which left 12 dead - including two police officers. It is not known if the two attacks are linked.

Meanwhile, terrified workers in Paris’s business district La Defense were warned not to leave their office after a gunman was seen outside, French newspaper Le Figaro reported.

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Pictured: French media identified this woman as Clarissa Jean-Philippe, the young policewoman who was gunned down as she attended a routine traffic accident in Montrouge at 8am today

Rescue service workers evacuate an injured person on a stretcher after the shooting in Montrouge which left a female police officer dead

The officer - named as Clarissa Jean-Philippe in the French media - was shot after stopping in the street to investigate a traffic accident

It is thought the assailant used an M5 assault rifle in the attack, before fleeing the scene wearing a 'bullet-proof vest''

A distraught woman is led away from the scene after the shooting in the southern suburb of Paris

France's top security official Bernard Cazenueve said Ms Jean-Philippe - a trainee police officer from the island of Martinique and who 'dreamed of serving her country',according to Paris Match - had stopped to investigate a traffic accident when the firing started in the southern suburb of Paris.

The gunman is believed to have been driving one of the cars.

'There was an officer in front of a white car and a man running away who shot,' said Ahmed Sassi, who saw the shooting from his home nearby.

He said the shooter wore dark clothes but no mask.

'It didn't look like a big gun because he held it with one hand,' Sassi said.

The street sweeper, who was also hurt in the attack, is said to have been seriously injured

Police look for evidence left behind by the two men - at least one of whom was armed with a gun

A bullet found at the scene in Montrouge after two people were shot in the street at about 8am

Two people confronted the gunman, who is understood to have been driving the car involved in the accident

The gunman - who is understood to have been armed with an M5 assault rifle - blasted the officer.

The street cleaner who was shot in the face was one of two men who tried to grapple with the man during the incident, The Times reports.

The cleaner was said to be in a serious condition by one police source, while another said emergency services had tried to revive Ms Jean-Philippe at the scene 'but she was in a very bad way'.

Another witness, William Thomas, a 19-year-old who lives close to this morning's attack, said: 'I was woken up by the first three shots.

'Then I heard someone shout "Take that" and there were another two shots. It was before 8am.'

The automatic gunfire was followed by the arrival of numerous special operations police, accompanied by emergency services.

A man who appeared to be of North African origin was seen running away from the scene. He was thought to be wearing a bullet proof vest.

'Emergency workers tried to revive the woman officer at the scene but she was in a very bad way,' an officer at the scene had said earlier.

Attack came less than 24 hours after 12 people were shot dead at the offices of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, also in Paris

French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve - pictured second left, at the site of the shooting in Montrouge - said the shooter was still at large

Members of the French national police intervention group (BRI) prepare to enter a hotel as they carry out searches in the area

A man arrested by police is escorted in a hotel in Montrouge during investigations following the shooting of a female police officer

The second suspect drove away in white Renault Clio. One of the men was arrested, said a local police spokesman. He was described as a 53-year-old.

Cazeneuve - who visited the scene - says the attacker in the shooting Thursday remained at large.

Ms Jean-Philippe is the third police officer killed in the French capital in the last 24 hours.

Two officers were killed in the Charlie Hebdo massacre: Ahmed Merabet, 42, and Franck Brinsolaro, 49.

Meanwhile, police are understood to be closing in on the two 'armed and dangerous' brothers who carried out yesterday's attack at the offices of Charlie Hebdo.

A map showing the location of the two shootings - as well as the movements of the police and Charlie Hebdo suspects since the first attack

Police are said to have located brothers Cherif and Said Kouachi - alleged to have carried out the massacre - in northern France

Cherif and Said Kouachi are thought to have been located in northern France.

A petrol station attendant was said to have identified the men, who were driving a white Renault Clio in the direction of Paris 'with exposed Kalashnikovs and rocket launchers' inside the vehicle, a source told RTL.

Detectives identified the Kouachis after one left his identification papers in the abandoned Citroen car used to escape after the attack on Charlie Hebdo.

Their alleged getaway driver Hamyd Mourad, 18, turned himself into police in Charleville-Mezieres in northern France.

A French police source said Mourad, a student, was encouraged to hand himself in by relatives after his name appeared on social media as a suspect for the killings.

He is believed to be the Kouachis' brother-in-law, according to Sky News. Today he was under armed guard and being questioned by police.

Operations by RAID, the police tactical unit, closed on an address in Reims, eastern France, overnight but it came to nothing, he added.

The Kouachi brothers also had links with the Paris suburb of Pantin, where another raid took place on a suspected flat which they used as hide out on Avenue Jean-Lolive.

All three French-Algerian Muslims escaped on Wednesday following the bloodbath at the offices of the notoriously anti-Islamic satirical magazine in Paris.

Twelve were killed - including the magazine's publishing director Stephane Charbonnier - known as ''Charb' - and three of its best-known cartoonists.

FACES OF THE 12 VICTIMS OF THE CHARLIE HEBDO MASSACRE REVEALED rench satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo's deputy chief editor Bernard Maris and cartoonists Georges Wolinski, Jean Cabut, aka Cabu, Charb, Tignous and Honore (Philippe Honore) The names of the 12 people killed in cold by blood by three gunmen during a horrifying attack at the Charlie Hebdo offices on Wednesday morning have been revealed. The dead include eight editorial staff, one worker, one visitor, one policeman, who was on the cartoonists' security detail, and one policeman who was shot dead on the street. Heroic Muslim police officer Ahmed Merabet, who was executed by a terrorist gunman on the streets of Paris while he begged for his life. Shocking footage of the attack on the Charlie Hebdo office shows Mr Merabet on the ground and begging for mercy as he is killed casually by a gunshot to the head. Witnesses say he asked 'do you want to kill me?' before the gunman replied 'OK, chief'. It is understood that Mr Merabet was a married Parisian cycle cop assigned to the 11th arrondissement – the Paris neighbourhood where Charlie Hebdo’s office is located and known for its dining and fine wines. As the French magazine vowed to publish next week in defiance of the massacre, one French mourner wrote: 'Ahmed Merabet died protecting the innocent from hate. I salute him.' Elsa Cyat was the only woman to die in the massacre, while policeman Ahmed Merabet was shot dead in the streets The second police officer to be killed in the attack was Franck Brinsolaro, 49, a brigadier and protection officer for the magazine's editor Stephane Charbonnier. The married 49-year-old lived in Bernay, France, and was the father of two children. His wife, Ingrid Brinsolaro, is editor of the Awakening Normand, Bernay, a newspaper that belongs to the group Publihebdos, as Hebdo de Sevre et Maine. The team at Publihebdos have released a statement regarding the killing. It read: 'Publihebdos teams are in shock after the cowardly attack and great seriousness that hit Charlie Hebdo today. 'This barbaric attack left many victims including a downed police was the husband of Ingrid Brinsolaro, our editor at Bernay. We are devastated and very sad.' Mr Charbonnier, the defiant editor whose satirical newspaper dared to poke fun at everything from religion to feminism and spoke out fiercely against political correctness, was another of the 12 victims. Just two years ago, the 47-year-old - nicknamed Charb - declared: ‘I am not afraid of retaliation. I have no children, no wife, no car, no credit,’ he said after receiving death threats two years ago. ‘It perhaps sounds a bit pompous, but I’d rather die standing than live on my knees.’ Mr Charbonnier, who took over as editor in 2009, grew up in Conflans-Sainte-Honorine, northern France and joined Charlie Hebdo in the early 1990s as a designer. The magazine's cartoonists were also targeted by the gunmen in the attack. Jean ‘Cabu’ Cabut, the magazine’s 76-year-old lead cartoonist was an almost legendary cultural figure in France. Known by the nickname ‘Cabu’, he was renowned for his quick wit and youthful style. He was also notorious for his drawing of Mohammed, which sparked fury after adorning the cover of Charlie Hebdo in 2006. Despite all the controversy, Mr Cabut was insistent that art should not be constrained. Perhaps his most famous quote was: ‘Sometimes laughter can hurt – but laughter, humour and mockery are our only weapons.’ Georges Wolinski, an 80-year-old who was as renowned for his colourful home life as he was for being a ‘master of satirical illustration’. Married twice, he once joked about his dying wish, saying: ‘I want to be cremated. I said to my wife, “if you throw the ashes in the toilet, I get to see your bottom every day”.’ Six of the Charlie Hebdo journalists and staff members killed in yesterday's attack are pictured together in this photo, taken in 2000. Circled top from left is Philippe Honore, Georges Wolinski, Bernard Maris and Jean Cabut. Below them on the stairs, from left, is editor Stephane Charbonnier and cartoonist Bernard ‘Tignous’ Verlhac Mr Wolinski was born in Tunis on June 28, 1934 to a Franco-Italian mother and a Polish Jewish father. He joined Hara-Kiri with Cabu in 1960 and became renowned for his cartoons, which spoofed politics and sexuality. Bernard ‘Tignous’ Verlhac, was a renowned pacifist. The 57-year-old Parisian had been drawing for the French press since 1980 and originally made his name on comic publication L’idiot international. Mourners were also last night paying tribute to Philippe Honore, a regular contributor to Charlie Hebdo who specialised in ‘literary puzzles’. The 73-year-old was born in Vichy, central France, and was first published aged just 16. Victim Bernard Maris was a Left-wing economist, known to readers as ‘Uncle Bernard’. Heartbroken friends said the 68-year-old was a ‘cultured, kind and very tolerant man’. Mourners were also last night paying tribute to Philippe Honore, a regular contributor to Charlie Hebdo who specialised in ‘literary puzzles’. The 73-year-old was born in Vichy, central France, and was first published aged just 16. Victim Bernard Maris was a Left-wing economist, known to readers as ‘Uncle Bernard’. Heartbroken friends said the 68-year-old was a ‘cultured, kind and very tolerant man’. Also killed was Michel Renaud, who did not work for Charlie Hebdo, but had been invited to the magazine’s offices as guest editor. He was the founder of ‘Rendez-vous de Carnet de Voyage’, a travel-themed art festival. It has been reported that the final two victims are Frédéric Boisseau, a maintenance worker, and Elsa Cayat. Ms Cayat, the only female victim of the gunmen, was a columnist and analyst for the magazine, according to Le Figaro. Post mortems will be held on Thursday, according to reports citing the prosecutor of Paris, François Molins. Advertisement

Both Said, 34, and his brother Cherif, 33, were first arrested in 2005 as suspected members of the Buttes Chaumont – a group operating out of the 19th arrondissement of Paris and sending terrorist fighters to Iraq.

Cherif was convicted in 2008 to three years in prison, with 18 months suspended, for his association with the underground organisation.

He had wanted to fly to Iraq via Syria, and was found with a manual for a Kalashnikov – the automatic weapon used in Wednesday's attack.

After his short prison sentence, Cherif was in 2010 linked with a plot to free Smain Ait Ali Belkacem, the mastermind of the 1995 bombing of the St Michel metro station in Paris that killed eight people and wounded more than 100 more.

Belkacem was a leading members of the GIA, or Armed Islamic Army – an Algerian terror outfit responsible for numerous atrocities.

Said and Cherif, both orphans, were born in Paris but grew up in foster care in Renne, Brittany.

They returned to Paris aged 18, when they moved to a council estate in Paris's 19th arrondissement. During this time Cherif was arrested for both drug dealing and theft.