By Le Figaro with AFP
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updated at 7:15 p.m.
The three bodies were discovered by the father this Tuesday, November 12 in Taninges, early in the afternoon. Their mother, who is depressed, is currently being sought.
Three children aged 2, 11 and 13 were found dead on Tuesday in a house located in Taninges in Haute-Savoie and their mother, who is depressed, is currently being sought, we learned from the gendarmes. They were discovered by their father who raised the alarm, a source at the gendarmerie told AFP.
Dispatched to the site around 12:30 p.m., the emergency services were only able to note the deaths, said the firefighters, confirming information from the Dauphiné Libéré. According to the regional daily: “Around sixty gendarmes are mobilized: soldiers from the Bonneville company, the Chambéry Research Section, the Departmental Road Safety Squadron (EDSR) and the High Mountain Gendarmerie Platoon (PGHM) as well as technicians from the Haute-Savoie criminal identification unit (CIC).
“The helicopter of the Chamonix Air Section, Choucas 74, is also associated with the gendarmerie system to carry out reconnaissance of the sector, in support of the soldiers of the Bonneville company” advance The Dauphiné Libéré. Taninges is a commune of 3,500 inhabitants in the Giffre valley, approximately 50 km east of Geneva.