DAMMARTIN GOKLE: Two brothers suspected of slaughtering 12 people at the Charlie Hebdo magazine were killed Friday when elite police stormed the building they were holed up in and freed a hostage unhurt.

The two massacre suspects came out shooting before being killed, AFP reported police sources as saying.

President Francois Hollande said France “faced down” militants behind the deaths of 17 people in three days but warned that the country has not finished with the threats.

In a televised speech delivered shortly after commandos killed the gunmen responsible, Hollande said that “even if France knows it faced down” the attackers and had “courageous” security personnel, the danger had not passed.