Police hunt father after wife and four children shot dead

POLICE hunting a father suspected of shooting dead his wife and four children and burying them in the garden have turned their attention southwards after his car was found.

Officers made the gruesome discovery of the corpses in the northwestern town of Nantes, but switched the hunt to the Riviera, 770 kilometres south after tracing the use of the suspect’s bank card.

The suspect withdrew cash in Roquebrune-sur-Argens outside Frejus a week ago, and yesterday police found the missing car, a metallic blue Citroen C5, outside a hotel where he is now thought to have stayed on April 14.