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The family were gunned down on a platform at Noyon station in Oise, northern France, at around 11.30am local time on Sunday.

Police say the shooter was an angry husband who shot his wife and two of their children following an argument.

Officers told Le Parisien newspaper they had already been called to the family home earlier that morning after a blazing row broke out.