Alps shootings: Bomb squad visits Saad al-Hilli home

Army bomb disposal experts have visited the Surrey home of a British man, shot dead with his wife, mother-in-law and a cyclist in the French Alps last week.

Army bomb disposal experts have visited the Surrey home of a British man, shot dead with his wife, mother-in-law and a cyclist in the French Alps last week.

Neighbours of Saad al-Hilli in Claygate were evacuated as items in a garden shed were examined but police later said they were not “hazardous”.

Meanwhile, French police have confirmed the death of Mr al-Hilli’s 74-year old mother-in-law, but have not named her.

The al-Hillis’ eldest daughter Zainab has been brought out of a coma.

The seven-year-old was shot and injured during the attack last week. Her four-year-old sister, Zeena, has returned to the UK.

Zeena lay undiscovered for eight hours after her parents, her grandmother, and a local cyclist died in Wednesday’s attack in Chevaline.

French and British investigators, including Surrey Police firearms officers, started examining the Claygate home of Mr al-Hilli, 50, on Saturday as part of an attempt to establish a motive for the murders which took place during the family’s camping holiday.