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Police have found an explosive belt dumped in a dustbin in Paris, French TV channel BFM reported on Monday.

The explosive belt - without a detonator - has been found in the southern Paris suburb of Montrouge, BFM reported, citing an inside source.

The spouse of one of the suspected Paris attackers had crossed into Syria from Turkey the day before her husband held hostages at a Jewish supermarket in the French capital last week, Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Monday.

The two hostage incidents that unfolded in France on Friday resulted in the death of three suspects and four hostages.

The suspected perpetrators of the January 7 Charlie Hebdo shooting brothers Cherif Kouachi and Said Kouachi took a hostage in a printing plant northeast of Paris in the town of Dammartin-en-Goele on Friday.

The French security forces stormed almost simultaneously both hostage sites - the kosher supermarket in Porte de Vincennes district in Paris and the printing shop in the town of Dammartin-en-Goele.

The suspected Charlie Hebdo gunmen, who had taken a hostage at a printing shop in Dammartin on Friday, were killed in the assault, the BBC reports.

Police have denied their own previous reports that two people had been killed after a shootout in a Kosher supermarket in Paris, France.

An unknown number of people are being held hostage.

Several hostages were freed after French commandos stormed a Jewish supermarket in eastern Paris where an assailant was holed up on Friday.
      
After several explosions, police stormed the shop in Portes de Vincennes and several hostages exited the store shortly afterwards and were taken to safety.

Five people were killed, including the gunman, sources said.

French police has launched a large-scale operation north-east of Paris on Thursday to find two fugitive brothers suspected of being the main perpetrators of the massacre at the Charlie Hebdo magazine.