France in shock after 'barbaric terrorist attack' on Charlie Hebdo office: President Hollande

Terming the deadly attack at the office of Charlie Hebdo in Central Paris as a ’terror attack’, French President Francois Hollande has called an emergency meeting of the cabinet at 2pm (Paris time) to discuss the situation. [caption id=“attachment_2034881” align=“alignleft” width=“380” class=" “]  Firefighters carry an injured man on a stretcher after gunmen shot dead 11 people at the office of Charlie Hebdo in Paris. AFP[/caption] According to TV reports, France has been put on its highest level of security after masked gunmen indiscriminately fired and killed 11 people at the office of the satirical magazine. The gunmen are still at large and French police are hunting for the perpetrators. According to a report in the Al-Jazeera, the gunmen wielded AK-47, Kalashnikovs and even a few rocket launchers. The streets of Paris were swarming with Army troopers and military men after the carnage happened. According to The Guardian, the President also said that 40 people were saved but cautioned that the number of deaths may rise. The news channel quoted a witness as saying he saw the incident from a building nearby in the heart of the French capital. “About a half an hour ago two black-hooded men entered the building with Kalashnikovs (guns),” Benoit Bringer told the station. “A few minutes later we heard lots of shots,” he said, adding that the men were then seen fleeing the building. A police official, Luc Poignant, said he was aware of one journalist dead and several injured, including three police officers. “It’s carnage,” Poignant told BFM TV. A firebomb attack gutted the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo in November 2011 after it put an image of the Prophet Mohammad on its cover, according to a report in Reuters.