UN Secretary-General Ban Ki- moon on Friday signed a condolence book following a terrorist attack on a satirical magazine in Paris on Wednesday, which left 12 people dead.

"The secretary-general was at the Mission of France to the United Nations to sign a condolences book following the attack on the magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris," Farhan Haq, the deputy UN spokesman, said at a daily news briefing here.

Speaking to reporters afterward, Ban said that he had expressed, on behalf of the United Nations, his most sincere condolences to the families of the victims and to the people and government of France.

The secretary-general added that he had spoken by phone with French President Hollande on Thursday and had expressed the international community's solidarity with France. He said that he had agreed with the French president to work closely against terrorism.

The deadly attack, which drew wide condemnation from the international community, had sparked a massive manhunt for gunmen suspected of the killings.

On Friday, French security forces killed two al-Qaida-linked brothers suspected of staging the bloody attack at the magazine and an associate who seized hostages in a kosher supermarket in eastern Paris, ending the three-day terror rampage around Paris.

At least seven people were killed Friday, including the three terrorists and at least four hostages. A fourth suspect, a female, was still at large. Endite

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