Massacre In French Alps - British Family Exucuted

Cops check family's car in Chevaline

The two young girls who survived a horrific shooting in the French Alps are under police guard, as authorities hunt for the gunman who apparently executed their family.

All of the four people killed in the attack, three of them apparently members of a British-Iraqi family, were shot in the head in what the prosecutor in charge of the case called an act of "extreme savagery".

Authorities also cast light on how a four-year-girl who was in the car at the time of the shooting managed to hide for up to eight hours under the legs of her dead mother in the back seat before being found by police.


Prosecutor Eric Maillaud said he could not say whether the unexplained attack, near a campsite at Chevaline, had the hallmarks of a professional assassination.

But he added: "It was clearly an act of extreme savagery and it was obvious that whoever did this wanted to kill."