(ANSA), Paris, July 19 - A 37-year-old man stabbed a woman,
46, and her three daughters aged nine to 14 in a resort village
in the French Alps on Tuesday.
The victims are being treated in hospital.
One of the three children is reportedly in critical
condition and was transferred to hospital in nearby Grenoble by
helicopter.
Police have taken the man into custody.
According to France Info, the motive for the attack near
Laragne-Monteglin in the Hautes-Alpes area may have been related
to the clothing the family were wearing.
Prosecutor Raphael Balland dismissed these reports as
rumours and said the reason for the attack was yet to be
established.
Local media reported the man was staying in a house near
the victims in the holiday village with his wife and two
children.
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