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Seventeen Are Killed in Terrorist Attacks in France

    On January 7, 2015 two masked men with guns stormed into the weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo killing twelve people including the paper's top editor. The two gunmen were believed to be brothers, Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi. It is said that the brothers had connections to Al Qaeda. Two days after the massacre the brothers took a hostage at a printing facility.
   On January 9, 2015 in another incident in Paris, Amedy Coulibaly took several hostages to a kosher supermarket which was rigged with explosives. Police were able to kill Coulibaly but four hostages also died in the process. Coulibaly reportedly also had tied to the Kouachi brothers.