The quiet French Alpine mountain road where four people were brutally murdered.<br/> <br />Police are due to carry out autopsies on the bodies of the four gunned down in Annecy - a man and two women in a British registered car and a French cyclist who apparently chanced on the scene.<br/> <br />Two Britons survived - a severely injured 8-year-old girl who had been shot and beaten and a 4-year-old, thought to be her sister, who had hidden for hours among the bodies, believed to be her parents and her grandmother.<br/> <br />She wasn't found by police until shortly before midnight on Wednesday - 8 hours after they arrived on the scene.<br/> <br />Police say the delay was because the child was well hidden and investigators were keen to preserve the crime scene.<br/> <br />On Friday France's Interior Minister Manuel Valls defended the police, saying he had full confidence in their abilities.<br/> <br />The owner of the car - who was found dead at the wheel - is believed to be Iraqi-born Briton Saad al-Hilli from Surrey.
