The editor in chief of French magazine Charlie Hebdo said he hopes this week’s edition makes people laugh despite the terrorist attack which claimed the lives of nine of its employees.

Police were last night searching for two brothers from the Paris region and a man from the northeastern city of Reims, over yesterday’s shooting at satirical weekly magazine Charlie Hebdo, a police official and government source said.

A massive manhunt has been launched for three fugitive gunmen who carried out a deadly terror attack on a French satirical magazine, killing 12 people.

Twelve people have been shot dead in a terror attack at the offices of a French satirical weekly which angered some Muslims after publishing crude caricatures of Islam’s prophet Mohammed.