A 13-year-old boy has been charged with second-degree murder over the death of his five-year-old half-sister after he told investigators he repeatedly struck her with wrestling moves imitated from TV.

Five people found gunned down in a house in New Mexico were identified today as a fire brigade chaplain, his wife, and three of their children.

The bodies of a Canadian couple killed in a plane crash in the Colorado mountains cannot be recovered until spring because of treacherous weather and avalanche threats, authorities said.