Manhunt for trio under way after ‘barbaric’ act

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.

The suspects were named as brothers Said Kouachi and Cherif Kouachi, French nationals aged in their early 30s, and 18-year-old Hamyd Mourad, whose nationality is unclear.

The police source said one of the brothers had previously been tried on terrorism charges.