French police have arrested a man who killed his wife and put her body in a bag inside the trunk of his car, according to the newspaper "The Independent" British.

Police found the wife's body in the trunk of the car as the family returned from Italy to France, where they lived, the newspaper said.

The man was arrested in the French Alps after information received to the police that the man killed his wife and put her body in the trunk of his car, while his two young children sitting in the back seat.

Police said the two children, aged between six and seven, were sitting in the back seat of the car and were unharmed.