A British schoolgirl orphaned in the Alpine  gun massacre said her father was standing next to her when the killer first  struck, it emerged today.

It is the chilling testament of Zainab  Al-Hilli, seven, which is helping detectives piece together the sequence of the  quadruple slaughter in eastern France.

Zainab’s father, Surrey engineer Saad  Al-Hilli, 50, his dentist wife Iqbal, 47, and his 74-year-old Swedish  mother-in-law, Suhaila Al-Allaf, all died in a blaze of semi-automatic gunfire  on September 5.

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