The 11-year-old was reportedly killed while playing on her garden swing.
An 11-year-old girl from a British family has been shot dead while playing on her garden swing in France, according to reports.
The 71-year-old Dutchman is reported to have been in a long-running row with the family over a plot of land beside their properties. Carine Halley, the state prosecutor in Quimper, said the child was dead and her father, who is about 40, badly hurt when police arrived, according to The Times. A local resident told French media the younger child raised the alarm, running to neighbours shouting: “My sister is dead. My sister is dead.”
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