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. Police sources say one of the victims in the car was an Iraqi-born computer engineer Saad Al-Hilli who lived in Britain and worked in an
aerospace
industry. Imogen Foulkes reports from the Annecy.
French police described Wednesday's killings as an act of extreme savagery---four people shot dead
in broad daylight
in a popular tourist spot.A British cyclist arrived at the scene just minutes after the killings. Three adults, a mother, a father and a grandmother lay dead in their car. A French cyclist was dead on the road with a 7-year-old girl apparently dying. She is now in hospital together with a child of just four believed to be her sister. But they are also being guarded by armed police.
A boat carrying migrants from Syrian and Iraq has sank off the coast of western Turkey, killing about 60 people, most of them women and children. A senior official suggested the migrants were mainly Palestinians. The boat's captain has been detained.
Syrian opposition activists say the army has retaken control of a town close to the border with Jordan in what appears to be an attempt to stem the flow of refugees fleeing the country. Troops backed by tanks are reported to have entered the town of Tal Shehab which has been one of the main
crossing points
for those trying to escape the fighting. More than 60,000 Syrians have entered Jordan since the conflict began.
World news from the BBC.