11-year-old girl shot dead in France while playing on garden swing – reports

The 71-year-old Dutchman is reported to have been in a long-running row with the family over a plot of land beside their properties.

An 11-year-old girl from a British family has been shot dead while playing on her garden swing in France, according to reports (Alamy/PA)

An 11-year-old girl from a British family has been shot dead while playing on her garden swing in France, according to reports.

Solaine Thornton and her sister Celeste, eight, were in the garden during a barbecue at their home in Saint-Herbot, near Quimper, Brittany, when an elderly neighbour opened fire at them with a shotgun through a hedge, the BBC said.