People light candles as flowers, pens, and placards are placed to show solidarity with those killed in an attack at the Paris offices of weekly newspaper 'Charlie Hebdo' in Bayonne, France. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

(Bloomberg) — Paris was on edge as a shooting south of the city today claimed the life of a policewoman and the hunt intensified for two of the perpetrators of yesterday’s massacre at satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo.

As hundreds of police and soldiers patrolled airports, schools and cultural sites like the Eiffel Tower and the Louvre, a suspect package at the Gare du Nord resulted in the evacuation of the station and streets around the Presidential Elysee Palace were blocked by security officers in body armor.

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