A police officer was wounded in a shootout in southern Paris on Thursday, a police source told Reuters, adding that it was unclear at this stage whether there was any link to the killings at the Charlie Hebdo magazine. Read: Paris attack: International cartoonists pay tribute
Television station iTELE said two police officers were lying on the ground after the attack.
French police are carrying out manhunt for two brothers suspected of killing 12 people on Wednesday at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris in a presumed Islamist militant strike.
On Thursday, authorities released photos of the two French nationals still at large, calling them "armed and dangerous."
Seven people have already been arrested in the ongoing investigation, Prime Minister Manuel Valls said.
Meanwhile, an explosion was reported at a kebab shop near a mosque in eastern France. Officials say there were no casualties.
Today's firing incident comes a day after 12 people were killed by three gunmen in a deadly attack on satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo, but no link has yet been established between the two shootings.
The masked, black-clad gunmen burst into the offices of the Charlie Hebdo magazine on Wednesday morning, killing some of France's most outspoken journalists and two policemen, before jumping into a car and escaping.
The youngest of those gunmen surrendered earlier today at a police station. Seven people have been detained in the hunt for the other two accused, who are brothers. Authorities have warned that the two brothers are "armed and dangerous."
Prime Minister Manuel Valls meanwhile told RTL radio that the two suspects were known to intelligence services and were "no doubt" being followed before Wednesday's attack.
They have been identified as Cherif Kouachi, 32, a known jihadist convicted in 2008 for involvement in a network sending fighters to Iraq, and his 34-year-old brother Said. Both were born in Paris.
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