On 5 September 2012 four people were shot dead after a gunman opened fire on a British family travelling by car in the French Alps. A man and two women - believed to be the girls' mother, father and an older relative - were in the British-registered BMW, which was riddled with bullets, as well as a passing cyclist. Police named the father, who was shot in the head, as Saad al-Hilli, 50, from Claygate, Surrey. A four-year-old girl was found alive underneath the bodies of her family around eight hours after the massacre. And a seven-year-old girl, thought to be her sister, was found violently beaten and is in a coma, fighting for her life. Mr al-Hilli's family were named by neighbours on Thursday as wife Iqbal and daughters Zainab, seven, and Zeena, four. One theory is that shots could have been fired during a bungled armed robbery, with the dead cyclist - named as Sylvain Mollier - being a witness to the crime. Prosecutors said 15 cartridges were found around the BMW and a "very large number" of shots had been fired. Mr al-Hilli and his family had been holidaying in a caravan at the Le Solitaire du Lac campsite in nearby Saint-Jorioz.