PARIS: Heavily armed gunmen massacred 12 people on Wednesday after bursting into the Paris offices of a satirical weekly that had long outraged Muslims with controversial cartoons of the prophet Mohammed.

The late-morning raid on the Charlie Hebdo headquarters in a quiet neighbourhood was the bloodiest attack in France for at least four decades.

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