The bodies of a woman, a child and a man, shot dead, were discovered Monday in Eygalières, in the Bouches-du-Rhône, the investigation is oriented a priori "towards a family tragedy" , AFP learned from a source close to the file. The three people were killed "a priori" to the gun, in this village of 1,800 inhabitants in the Alpilles, said a second source.
According to the regional dailies Le Dauphiné libéré and La Provence , the man, who took refuge several hours before killing himself, killed his eight-year-old daughter and her mother.