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| Corsican boy 'kills four at home' | |
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| A Corsican teenager has confessed to shooting dead both his parents and twin 10-year-old brothers in their beds with a hunting rifle, officials say. | A Corsican teenager has confessed to shooting dead both his parents and twin 10-year-old brothers in their beds with a hunting rifle, officials say. |
| The 16-year-old was detained after a relative to whom he confessed the killings alerted police, reports say. | The 16-year-old was detained after a relative to whom he confessed the killings alerted police, reports say. |
| Police found the four bloodied bodies at the family's home in the island's southern village of Albitreccia. | Police found the four bloodied bodies at the family's home in the island's southern village of Albitreccia. |
| Police are questioning the youth to try and establish what prompted the killing spree on the French holiday island. | Police are questioning the youth to try and establish what prompted the killing spree on the French holiday island. |
| The teenager reportedly went missing for several hours following Tuesday night's shootings, before confiding to the relative who accompanied him to a local police station. | |
| "It is a bit premature to draw an analysis about his psychological situation," Hubert Deininger, a police colonel, was quoted as saying on France-Info radio. | "It is a bit premature to draw an analysis about his psychological situation," Hubert Deininger, a police colonel, was quoted as saying on France-Info radio. |
| Police have not released the names of the teenager or his parents, whose ages were given as 43 and 45. | Police have not released the names of the teenager or his parents, whose ages were given as 43 and 45. |