PARIS (AFP) - The four people killed on Friday at a Jewish supermarket in Paris were "likely" killed by the gunman at the start of the hostage-taking, the prosecutor leading the investigation said.

Pointing to the "state of the bodies" and gunman Amedy Coulibaly's own remarks in a French television interview from the scene, prosecutor Francois Molins said it seemed "no hostage was killed during the assault" by police that ended the siege.