PARIS, June 12 (Reuters) - An 11-year-old British girl has been shot dead in the garden of her home in Brittany, western France, following a years-long dispute between neighbours over land, the local prosecutor and a town hall official said.
The family were enjoying a warm evening on Saturday in their garden in the small village of Saint Herbot, near Quimper, when a Dutch neighbour shot at them several times, the prosecutor said.
Britain's Foreign Office said it was providing consular assistance to a British family following a shooting.
Regine Guillot, secretary of the nearest town hall in Plonevez-du-Faou, said the British family had lived in the hamlet for five years and that the Dutch neighbour was a private man.
The shooting comes just days after a British toddler was among four children and two adults stabbed in the tranquil town of Annecy in the French Alps.
Persons:
Regine Guillot, Guillot, Juliette Jabkhiro, Elizabeth Pineau, Richard Lough, Nick Macfie
Organizations:
Reuters, Thomson
Locations:
Brittany, France, Saint Herbot, Quimper, Dutch, Plonevez, Brest, British, Annecy, French, Paris