Brittany: Girl, 11, from British family shot dead in France

An 11-year-old miss from a British household has been changeable dead, pursuing a reported quality betwixt neighbours successful north-western France.

French media said that the girl's parents were injured, and her eight-year-old sister was successful "shock".

The UK's Foreign Office said it was providing assistance to a British household pursuing a shooting successful France.

The incidental took spot connected Saturday evening successful Saint-Herbot, a colony adjacent Quimper successful Brittany.

The suspect, who has been reported to beryllium a Dutch national, and his woman person been arrested, section media reported.

Local authoritative Carine Halley said the crushed for this calamity were not yet known, but it appeared determination had been a struggle betwixt the neighbours for respective years implicit a crippled of onshore adjoining the 2 properties.

Marguerite Bleuzen, the politician of Plonévez-du-Faou commune, said: "We knew the household well. There is simply a colony fête each twelvemonth and they ever came.

"It is incomprehensible to person changeable a child. No 1 tin recognize however that could person happened."