Father shoots wife and two children dead before turning gun on himself
The incident took place at the Noyon station, 70 miles north of Paris
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Your support makes all the difference.A father has shot dead his wife and two children before turning the gun on himself at a French railway station.
The man, who has not been named, killed his family at Noyon, 70 miles north of Paris.
The children, aged three and five, were pronounced dead at the scene.
The station was forced to close as forensic officers conducted investigations.
Officers said they were called to the family home earlier that morning after the couple had an argument, according to Le Parisien newspaper.
Following the incident, the mother-of-five decided to leave the family home with three of her children.
As she waited for her other two children, the husband opened fire, police said.
“There was the sound of automatic gunfire, and then the man was standing over his family,” a source close to the case said, according to the Daily Mail.
“He seemed to have snapped before the attack, and when it was over he shot himself.”
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