{Masked gunmen opened fire Wednesday in the offices of a satirical newspaper in Paris that has faced previous threats for Muslim-related cartoons, killing at least 12 people in bloodshed that France\u2019s president described as a terrorist attack.}<\/p>\n
French officials immediately raised the terrorism alert to its highest level after the shooting at the newspaper Charlie Hebdo. Security was stepped at media outlets, transportation hubs and other sites.<\/p>\n
The weekly had drawn repeated threats for its caricatures of the Prophet Muhammed and other sketches and articles on Muslim figures.<\/p>\n
French President Francois Hollande called the shooting a \u201cterrorist attack without a doubt,\u201d but authorities had no immediate comment on possible suspects or motives.<\/p>\n
A police official, Luc Poignant, told the Associated Press that the attackers escaped in two vehicles.<\/p>\n
Top government officials, meanwhile, planned an emergency meeting. Hollande said that several other terror attacks have been thwarted \u201cin recent weeks,\u201d but gave no further details.<\/p>\n
Paris prosecutor\u2019s spokeswoman Agnes Thibault-Lecuivre, said 12 people were killed, the Associated Press reported.<\/p>\n
One witness, Benoit Bringer, told the iTele network that he saw multiple masked men armed with automatic weapons storm the newspaper\u2019s office in central Paris. The attack occurred just hours after the newspaper\u2019s latest edition hit newsstands.<\/p>\n
In 2011, the newspaper\u2019s offices were firebombed in apparent response to a cover cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. It later published other Muhammad caricatures that draw denunciations around the Islamic world.<\/p>\n
In Britain, Prime Minister David Cameron called the attack \u201csickening.\u201d<\/p>\n
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