The 11-year-old was killed while playing outside her home in a village near the city of Quimper in Brittany. Prosecutor says Solenne Thornton was attacked after the 'girl's father was doing garden work on the hedge separating the two properties'.
An 11-year-old British girl was shot dead in her garden in France after her father's work on some hedges inflamed a long-running dispute, say prosecutors.
"Later the suspect took a loaded 22mm rifle - three to four shots were fired, hitting the three victims," he said.
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