Police at Suspected UK Home of France Shootings Victims

A plainclothes policewoman stood outside the suspected British home of a family shot dead in their car in the French Alps, an Agence France Presse reporter at the scene said on Thursday.

The policewoman was posted outside the spacious detached house in a leafy residential district of Surrey, southwest of London, while a Surrey police spokeswoman said the force was assisting French authorities in the investigation.

A four-year-old girl survived the brutal gun attack on Wednesday by curling under the bullet-riddled corpses of her mother and grandmother.

Her father, who was found dead in the driver's seat of the BMW estate car in Chevaline near Annecy, has been identified as Saad al-Hilli, a 50-year-old who was born in Baghdad but lived in Surrey.

Outside the family home on Thursday, postman Gary Standford said Hilli had "seemed a pleasant man".

"He'd been living here for about three years," Standford said.