PARIS: French anti-terror police launched a late-night raid in a northeastern city in a frantic manhunt for masked gunmen who shouted "Allahu akbar" as they killed 12 people at a satirical weekly in Paris, sparking global outrage.

Local television showed black-clad sharpshooters from the elite police unit in the streets of Reims, in France's Champagne region, as a source close to the case said three men, two of them brothers, had been identified as suspects.

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