At least five people have been taken hostage at a kosher supermarket in Paris after a shootout, reports said.
The suspect was armed with two guns, and several people were wounded in the attack in the eastern part of the French capital, the reports said.
SWAT teams, dozens of police vans and emergency services rushed to the scene, as helicopters hovered above.
Kosher restaurants were closing across Paris while schools in the Porte de Vincennes area were on lockdown and two subway stops were closed.
The French Interior Minister was headed to the scene.
The gunman was suspected of being the same man who killed a policewoman in Montrouge, southern Paris, on Thursday.
He is suspected to be a member of the same jihadist group as brothers Said and Cherif Kouachi, who stormed satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo a day earlier, killing 12 people.
The brothers are holed up in a factory in a seperate hostage situations unfolding near Charles de Gaulle airport.
In Thursday's attack, the gunman was wearing a bullet-proof vest and was carrying a pistol and an automatic rifle.
He opened fire and killed the trainee policewoman, named as Clarissa Jean-Philippe, 25. A street sweeper was seriously injured in the incident.
The shooting is being treated as a "terrorist act" by the French authorities.
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