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Immobilized with fear, a 4-year-old British girl huddled for eight hours beneath the legs of her slain mother in the back of a car filled with corpses on a remote Alpine road _ all while French investigators stood nearby, unaware the girl was there. 
  
 Gendarmes block access to a killing site near Chevaline, French Alps, Wednesday Sept. 5, 2012. French authorities say at least four people have been shot to death in a forest in the Alps.An official... (Associated Press) 
  
 Gendarmes block access to a killing site near Chevaline, French Alps, Wednesday Sept. 5, 2012. French authorities say at least four people have been shot to death in a forest in the Alps.An official... (Associated Press) 
  
 Gendarmes block access to a killing site near Chevaline, French Alps, Wednesday Sept. 5, 2012. French authorities say at least four people have been shot to death in a forest in the Alps.An official... (Associated Press) 
  
 The stunning discovery Thursday of the girl, apparently unharmed, heightened the drama around a mysterious shooting rampage that left four adults dead and a 7-year-old girl hospitalized with bullet wounds and skull fractures. The reason for the killing, in a wooded area near the village of Chevaline, remains unclear. 
  
 All were found in or near a BMW that prosecutors say belonged to a British family vacationing at a campground on the shores of Lake Annecy, a popular retreat in the French Alps. The owners of the campground told investigators the victims included two parents and a grandmother. 
  
 A cyclist stumbled across the grisly scene Wednesday, and police arrived to find a man's body in the front seat and two women in the back, and a dead cyclist with no known ties to the other victims nearby. The 7-year-old girl was discovered near the car with bullet wounds and skull fractures and was hospitalized, Annecy prosecutor Eric Maillaud said. Her identity was unclear. 
  
 French authorities struggled to explain why the 4-year-old wasn't discovered earlier and was left for hours alone on the back seat of a car with two corpses, apparently those of her mother and grandmother. 
  
 Maillaud said, "we discovered a little 4-year-old girl that no one noticed earlier because she wasn't moving. Probably terrified, she was completely immobile among the bodies. She was later examined and she is doing okay. 
  
 "She is in a hospital but her life is not threatened despite going through a tragedy by losing her family in such atrocious conditions," he said 
  
 Maillaud said as soon as investigators opened the door, the girl emerged, smiled and reached out her arms; she was speaking English but couldn't describe what had happened. She was taken into police care. 
  
 The man who discovered the bodies alerted authorities around 4 p.m. Wednesday; the car was under guard until midnight, when special investigators arrived from the Paris area. 
  
 "Firefighters, technicians, doctors looked inside the car through the windows but they didn't see the little girl. The child, terrorized, never moved. She stayed beneath her mother's legs," Lt. Col. Benoit Vinnemann said, according to BFM-TV. 
  
 Maillaud said the cyclist who found the bodies saw "a man on the right side, on the driver's side since it is a car with British plates. The man seems dead to him as well as the two women in the back. He doesn't see anything else. So when the rescue teams and the police arrive we have five persons: four dead adults and a seriously injured child who is evacuated." 
  
 The French cyclist found dead next to the car had no ties to the British family; he was identified only after his wife reported him missing. 
  
 "A woman was worried because her husband went to cycle in this area and didn't come back home," Maillaud said. "He was just cycling in that area and got killed along with this British family." 
  
 Police cordoned off the area, combing the forest for potential perpetrators and waiting for forensic experts to arrive. 
  
 About 15 bullet casings were found near the car, Maillaud said. 
  
 Police vehicles have barricaded the road about 3 kilometers (1.5 miles) from where the bodies were found and say searches continued Thursday in the surrounding forest. 
  
 The names of the victims were not released. The British Foreign Office said it is aware of the incident and is looking into it. 
  
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 Lori Hinnant in Paris and Danica Kirka in London contributed to this report. ||||| Four people died yesterday in a brutal gun attack on a British-registered car in the French Alps after what police believe may have been an attempted robbery or hijacking. 
  
 An eight-year-old girl, apparently from the same family as three of the victims, was fighting for her life in a hospital in Grenoble last night after being shot three times. She was found beside a British-registered BMW four- wheel drive car in remote woodland five kilometres from the village of Chevaline, close to Lake Annecy. 
  
 The bodies of a man and two women were discovered in the car. The body of a cyclist was lying nearby. 
  
 Although the local prosecutor declined to comment on possible motives for the slaughter, a gendarmerie officer said the investigation would examine similarities with a series of robberies and attempted hijackings of tourist cars in France this summer. 
  
 Investigators will also look at possible connections with the discovery of human bones in the forest near the village of Chevaline, which has a population of 300, in June. 
  
 The identity of the car was confirmed last night, pointing to the "likelihood" that three victims were British, a gendarmerie spokesman said. However, he said that the identity of the victims, said to be in their 40s or 50s, had not yet been confirmed. 
  
 Initial reports suggested the girl had died from her wounds but French authorities said she was critically ill in hospital. She was flown from the murder scene by helicopter and had a series of operations. 
  
 Eric Maillaud, public prosecutor in Annecy, said: "All possible lines of inquiry remain open. A large number of gun cartridges, around 60, were found at the crime scene." 
  
 The bodies will remain in the wood overnight and post-mortems will be performed today or tomorrow. 
  
 The dead man was found in the driving seat of the vehicle in a public car park on a remote forest road – the Route de la Combe d'Ire in the wooded foothills of the Alps above Lake Annecy. The two women were in the back. 
  
 No firearms were found – apparently ruling out the possibility of a mass suicide or domestic quarrel. Bullet holes were found in the car. 
  
 The fourth victim was a male cyclist who was found lying beside his bike. Gendarmerie investigators were said to be examining the possibility that he interrupted a robbery. 
  
 The victims were discovered by another cyclist at about 3.50pm. 
  
 The mayor of Chevaline, Didier Berthollet, said villagers had told gendarmes that they had seen a car driving unusually fast through the village. "Never before have we witnessed such horror on our doorsteps," he said. 
  
 A Foreign Office spokeswoman said it was aware of the incident and was looking into it urgently. 
  
 A local gendarmerie source said there had been a series of robberies, and attempted robberies, of tourist cars in France this summer and last. The possibility of a robbery or hijacking would be one of the lines of investigation, he added. |||||

A horrific story out of the French Alps: Four adults were found shot to death in or near a BMW yesterday, and beneath the legs of a dead woman cowered a 4-year-old, terrified but alive. She apparently spent some eight hours tucked beneath the body of her mother and next to her grandmother in the back seat of the car—while French investigators stood nearby, unaware, reports the AP. The car reportedly belonged to a British family vacationing at a nearby campground; the camp's owners said the girl's father was also killed, and police say a dead cyclist unconnected to the family was found dead nearby. Also injured: a 7-year-old girl, found near the car with skull fractures and three gunshot wounds, reports the Independent. She has been hospitalized, along with the 4-year-old. Police say the younger child likely went unnoticed by the firefighters, technicians, and doctors who peered into the car's windows because she was "completely immobile among the bodies." But as soon as they opened the car door, she came out, smiled, and reached out her arms. She is talking, but is unable to explain what happened. The Independent reports that police speculate it was an attempted robbery or hijacking gone wrong, with one officer noting a handful of such attempts on tourist cars have happened in France this summer.