According to the latest reports, three French terror suspects are dead at two different hostage standoff areas.
The dramatic developments came after sustained gunfire and explosions emitted at both hostage circumstances in France, two days after a massacre at the Paris work places of the satirical paper Charlie Hebdo.
As indicated by various media reports, the two simultaneous hostage-takings in France were connected, with suspected gunmen in each situation connected through an earlier attempt to break a convicted terrorist out of jail.