By Isolde Raftery, NBC News
A cyclist came across a chilling scene Wednesday afternoon as he climbed a wooded road in southeastern France at the foothills of the French Alps: Three dead bodies in a BMW registered in Britain.
Nearby was the body of another cyclist, dressed in cycling gear, his bike nearby.
A?slain man was seated at the BMW's steering wheel; the two dead women were in the back seats. The sole survivor was a girl ? news reports dispute whether she is 8- or 10-years-old ? who was gravely wounded, according to Le Dauphin? Lib?r?. The cyclist found her in front of the car.
The passing cyclist?called "les secours" ? France?s 911 ? and the girl was transported by plane to Grenoble, where she was being treated. Police have secured her hospital room, officials said.
Norbert Falco/Le Dauphine / EPA
French Police officers cordon off the road leading to a gruesome scene where four people were shot dead near Annecy Lake, a popular tourist destination at the foothills of the French Alps. A girl survived the shooting.
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The BMW was parked in a lot between two villages ? Chevaline and Doussard ? at the upper part of Lake Annecy in the Haute Savoie region in southeastern France, news reports said. Although the region is a British tourist destination known for its hiking trails and wooded beauty, the summer crowds have dwindled.
Police said?the victims were shot at 3:50 p.m. ? just 10 minutes before the cyclist came upon the car. Casings littered the crime scene, but a gun was?not?found, they said.
French authorities have contacted British officials but?said they did not know the identities or nationalities of the victims.
"For right now, we cannot form a single theory," said Eric Maillaud, a public prosecutor for the Annecy region, according to Le Dauphin?. He said the discovery looked like a scene from a movie, the Scotsman reported.
The cyclist who found the bodies and the girl was in shock as he was interviewed by police, according to news reports.
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