At least twelve people have been killed and five others critically injured when several masked men armed with automatic weapons stormed the offices of French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo in the heart of the French capital, Paris.
Rocco Contento, a Paris police spokesman, confirmed that three attackers entered the magazine’s offices at around 11:30 a.m. local time (1030 GMT), carrying pump-action shotguns and Kalashnikovs.
Charlie Hebdo has a long record of taking its satire seriously. The weekly magazine’s offices were firebombed in 2011 after the publication of insulting cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed (PBUH).
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