A family was found shot dead in a burnt-out house in Switzerland, near the border with France, police in the canton of Vaud revealed to several of our colleagues. According to the first tracks, the father would have murdered his wife and his three daughters before killing himself.
An atrocious crime. On Saturday March 11, the police of the canton of Vaud, in Switzerland, indicated that five people from the same family were found in a charred house, in Yverdon-les-Bains, near the border with France, reports Le Figaro. According to the first expertise, they would have died by bullet.
The father suspected of having killed his family
Swiss law enforcement suspects the 40-year-old father of having murdered his 40-year-old wife and three daughters, aged 5, 9 and 13, on Thursday, before committing suicide , reports The Dispatch.
“After two days of intense investigations, the track of the family drama is the hypothesis favored by the prosecutor in charge of the criminal investigation and the investigators”, testifies the police of the canton of Vaud, in a press release, before adding that “a weapon was found near the father who might be the author of the four other homicides before ending his life”.
An explosion also reportedly sounded in the house before it was engulfed in flames.
“The intervention of a third party” is excluded from the survey. The origin of the fire is not yet known, but the investigators discovered “the presence in the various rooms of the house of a large quantity of accelerant, potentially gasoline”.