3.18 pm: Police block all access to town where gunmen believed to have taken at least one hostage
3.15 pm: PM says France 'at war' with terrorism, not religion
3.10 pm: Police cordon off Dammartin-en-Goele, operation to neutralise attackers
2.55 pm: Reports say police have begun negotiating with attackers
2.54 pm: Dozens of ambulances rushed to Dammartin-en-Goele
2.52 pm: Paris prosecutor's office denies report one person killed in shootout in Dammartin-en-Goele
2.50 pm: Flights abort landing at Charles-de-Gaulle due to shooting near airport
2.48 pm: Reports say police entering negotiations with Charlie Hebdo attackers
2.47 pm: French President François Hollande briefed on hostage situation in Paris suburb.
2.46 pm: Media report: At least one killed, several injured during shootout with attackers
2.45 pm: U.S. and European sources say one of the attackers was in Yemen in 2011 for several months training with Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula
2.42 pm: A police source said the two suspects had been sighted in the town, where at least one person was taken hostage.
2.40 pm: It was not immediately clear how many people were being held hostage, according to a police source
2.37 pm: French police convoy, helicopters rush to scene of operation to detain attackers
2.35 pm: Two people seriously injured in shootout before hostage situation northeast of Paris
2.30 pm: Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve holds emergency meeting with the President, PM and top police official.
2.25 pm: The two attackers stole a Peugeot on Friday morning in the town of Montagny Sainte Felicite, about 50 km northeast of Paris.
2.20 pm: Shots fired, hostages taken in manhunt for Charlie Hebdo attackers, police say.
2.15 pm: French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said the operation to detain Charlie Hebdo shooting suspects now underway north-east of Paris.
2.10 pm: The source added that police were chasing a vehicle on the nearby A2 motorway.
2.05 pm: Gunshots rang out on Friday in the French town of Dammartin-en-Goele, some 40 km from the scene of where police had been hunting two suspects in the killings of 12 people at satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, a police source said.
