Police have a warehouse in north-east Paris surrounded, where it is thought the two gunmen suspected of carrying out the fatal shootings in the city on Wednesday have taken a hostage.

One person has reportedly been killed and at least 20 are reported to have been injured after police launced a car chase on the A2 motorway near Paris.

The brothers believed to have massacred 12 people in Paris were poverty-stricken orphans set on the path to terrorism by a radical preacher.