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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Post mortems are due to be carried out today on the bodies of three members of a British-Iraqi family and another man who were shot dead in the French Alps.
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Investigating officers are still trying to establish
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">The prosecutor in charge of the case has described the deaths as an act of “extreme savagery”.
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Two young girls believed to be the daughters of two victims survived and are under police protection.
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Meanwhile police in Britain are now looking for the brother of the man who was shot dead along with his wife and mother-in-law.
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">Detectives have been given information from British police that suggests there
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">The 2 daughters of  Saad al-Hilli survived the gun attack on Wednesday.
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">It also saw the
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">The British Ambassador to France is Sir Peter Ricketts.
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style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Georgia;">He says officials are helping her 4-year-old sister who escaped the attack unharmed.
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