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Single gun used to kill 4 in Alps: Prosecutor
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September 11, 2012, Tuesday
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A SINGLE semi-automatic weapon was used to shoot dead four people in the Alps last week, including the parents and grandmother of two British girls who survived the attack, French state prosecutor Eric Maillaud said yesterday.
Police searching the family's home in Surrey, to the south of London, briefly widened a security cordon around the site and called in bomb disposal experts but found nothing hazardous.
"Yes, it's confirmed," Maillaud said when asked about reports of a 7.65-millimeter automatic pistol being the only weapon used in the murders on a remote mountain road near the border with Switzerland and Italy.
Saad al-Hilli, the Iraqi-born British driver was shot twice in the head in his car along with his wife, her mother and a passing cyclist last Wednesday on the road near the village of Chevaline, not far from the Annecy lake where the Hilli family was on holiday. About 25 gun shells were retrieved and the corpses of the four victims suggested that there could have been more than one gunman.
Earlier, officers sealed off the road in the village of Claygate in Surrey, southwest of London, and began removing neighbors living close to Hilli's 1 million pound (US$1.60 million) house after finding suspicious substances in the back garden. "A bomb disposal unit was called to the scene to carry out an assessment as a precautionary measure," a Surrey police spokeswoman said.
Police searching the family's home in Surrey, to the south of London, briefly widened a security cordon around the site and called in bomb disposal experts but found nothing hazardous.
"Yes, it's confirmed," Maillaud said when asked about reports of a 7.65-millimeter automatic pistol being the only weapon used in the murders on a remote mountain road near the border with Switzerland and Italy.
Saad al-Hilli, the Iraqi-born British driver was shot twice in the head in his car along with his wife, her mother and a passing cyclist last Wednesday on the road near the village of Chevaline, not far from the Annecy lake where the Hilli family was on holiday. About 25 gun shells were retrieved and the corpses of the four victims suggested that there could have been more than one gunman.
Earlier, officers sealed off the road in the village of Claygate in Surrey, southwest of London, and began removing neighbors living close to Hilli's 1 million pound (US$1.60 million) house after finding suspicious substances in the back garden. "A bomb disposal unit was called to the scene to carry out an assessment as a precautionary measure," a Surrey police spokeswoman said.
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