Summary The source said gunmen had hijacked a car and knocked over a pedestrian as he sped away.
PARIS (AFP) - At least 11 people were killed when gunmen armed with Kalashnikovs and a rocket-launcher opened fire in the offices of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo on Wednesday, Paris prosecutors said.
"At this stage" eleven people are dead, said the prosecutor s office, without detailing how many had been injured.
Deputy Mayor of Paris Bruno Julliard earlier said "six people are seriously injured", including a policeman. It was not clear whether these now figured among the dead.
French President Francois Hollande was on his way to the scene of the shooting and called an emergency cabinet meeting, the presidency said.
A source close to the investigation said two men "armed with a Kalashnikov and a rocket-launcher" stormed the building in central Paris and "fire was exchanged with security forces."
The source said gunmen had hijacked a car and knocked over a pedestrian as he sped away.
The publication s cartoonist Renaud Luzier earlier told AFP there were "casualties" after the incident.
Its offices were fire-bombed in November 2011 when it published controversial cartoons.
French schools, consulates and cultural centres in 20 Muslim countries were briefly closed along with embassies for fear of retaliatory attacks.
Editor Stephane Charbonnier has received death threats and lives under police protection.
