11 Dead In Shooting At Paris Satirical Magazine

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A French police official says that at least 11 people were killed after two gunmen stormed the Paris headquarters of satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, the AP reports.

A police official earlier confirmed to the AP that one journalist is among the dead and three police were injured. 

The AP says a witness to the shooting told the iTele network that "he saw multiple masked men armed with automatic weapons at the newspaper." 

An official said the gunmen escaped in two vehicles, the AP reports. The shooters are still at large.

France just raised its alert status to the highest level. 

French news site French24.com also said earlier that one policeman is among the injured.

This photo from above the scene with one person being carried out on a stretcher was posted by twitter user @yvecresson:

 A Le Monde journalist tweeted this photo that she says shows the two shooters:

 The Guardian tweeted this photo of the entrance:

AFP journalist Eric Randolph noted in a tweet that the cover of Charlie Hebdo this week featured Michel Hollellebecq whose new book "imagines Muslims take over French government in 2022."

 Here are some more pictures from the scene:

Charlie Hebdo has faced threats in the past. It is a satirical weekly, first published in Paris in 1969. It often makes jokes and cartoons about the extreme right and religion. The Catholic Church and Judaism are among its traditional targets.

An issue that ran on Nov. 3, 2011, featured an image of Prophet Muhammed on its front page said: "100 lashes of the whip if you don't die laughing."

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