Charlie Hebdo: French police hunt for woman accomplice of slain terrorist

Hayat Boumeddiene is being hunted by police as an accomplice in the killing of  a policewoman in south Paris along with slain Coulibaly.

According to French news agency AFP, the woman is "a sleepy-eyed young woman, her face and brown hair showing, whom they had questioned in 2010 about Coulibaly."

She is termed by police as armed and dangerous. While in hiding her late boyfriend had reportedly urged her to launch more attacks after the Charlie Hebdo magazine massacre.

The double hostage crisis in France came to an end on Friday as police gunned down the three hostage takers, including the two brothers suspected of a massacre in the magazine office of Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, in separate incidents, but four hostages also lost their lives in the standoff while a fifth hostage could be saved from their clutches. officials said.

The suspected magazine attack brothers, Cherif and Said Kouachi, were holding a hostage at  the printworks warehouse north of France capital Paris where they were holed up.

Security forces  killed another gunman Amedy Coulibalyas  who seized hostages at a  kosher (Jewish) supermarket in eastern Paris, but there four hostages were  killed by him though many were freed.

The Paris market hostage taker who has been killed now was suspected to be behind the fatal shooting of a policewoman in Montrouge in southern Paris on Thursday.

According to reports, remaining hostages, including the one at  the warehouse where the brothers were hiding, have been freed.

France witnessed a dark day in its history on Jan 7 with gunmen attacking the Paris office of French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and killing at least 12 people , including cartoonists and two policemen, as global leaders joined to condemn the incident.