Four people killed in mysterious shooting
CHEVALINE, France - A four-year old girl was found alive overnight in a car in which four people died in a mysterious shooting at an Alpine beauty spot.
“She was hidden under the bodies for some eight hours and didn’t move for the whole time.”
She was not discovered until investigators reached the scene, local public prosecutor Eric Maillaud said.
The young girl is said to be fighting for her life. Her condition was reported as critical, after being taken to hospital in the regional capital Grenoble by helicopter.
The car, a BMW, was found with the bodies of a man, in the front, and two women who were seated in the back, local police said. The body of a second man, a cyclist, was found on the ground just to the right of the car.
The vehicle was surrounded by dozens of spent cartridges.
The car was registered in Britain, Maillaud said in a briefing to reporters in Chevaline, located close to Lake Annecy in the Haute-Savoie area of eastern France.
The shooting took place in a tree-lined car park on the edge of the picturesque village that is popular with tourists and second homeowners from all over Europe, including many Britons.
“We haven’t yet been able to establish the nationality of the victims,” said Maillaud, who did not have access to the car pending forensic examinations.
“For the moment we have not been able to establish a theory about what has happened here.”
The bodies were discovered by another cyclist. He was being questioned by police.
Around 60 gendarmes were involved in a search for potential clues.
The position of the bodies in the car and the large number of cartridges found at the scene suggest the killing could have been the result of an armed robbery that the cyclist may have inadvertently interrupted. But there was no immediate comment on that hypothesis from the prosecutor or police at the scene.
Child found alive under dead bodies
Four people killed in mysterious shooting
CHEVALINE, France - A four-year old girl was found alive overnight in a car in which four people died in a mysterious shooting at an Alpine beauty spot.
“She was hidden under the bodies for some eight hours and didn’t move for the whole time.”
She was not discovered until investigators reached the scene, local public prosecutor Eric Maillaud said.
The young girl is said to be fighting for her life. Her condition was reported as critical, after being taken to hospital in the regional capital Grenoble by helicopter.
The car, a BMW, was found with the bodies of a man, in the front, and two women who were seated in the back, local police said. The body of a second man, a cyclist, was found on the ground just to the right of the car.
The vehicle was surrounded by dozens of spent cartridges.
The car was registered in Britain, Maillaud said in a briefing to reporters in Chevaline, located close to Lake Annecy in the Haute-Savoie area of eastern France.
The shooting took place in a tree-lined car park on the edge of the picturesque village that is popular with tourists and second homeowners from all over Europe, including many Britons.
“We haven’t yet been able to establish the nationality of the victims,” said Maillaud, who did not have access to the car pending forensic examinations.
“For the moment we have not been able to establish a theory about what has happened here.”
The bodies were discovered by another cyclist. He was being questioned by police.
Around 60 gendarmes were involved in a search for potential clues.
The position of the bodies in the car and the large number of cartridges found at the scene suggest the killing could have been the result of an armed robbery that the cyclist may have inadvertently interrupted. But there was no immediate comment on that hypothesis from the prosecutor or police at the scene.
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