More witnesses sought in missing twins search
The police in canton Vaud have launched a new appeal for any witnesses in the case of six-year-old twins who went missing at the end of January.
The police said on Monday that two witnesses claimed to have seen the twins together with their father in neighbouring canton Geneva on January 30.
The authorities are trying to reconstruct the journey of the father and the girls. The police hope that if they can track the man’s movements exactly, they can narrow down the search for the daughters.
The father committed suicide by throwing himself in front of a train in Cerignola in southern Italy on February 3. On Saturday, the GPS chip from the car belonging to the father was found near the train tracks where he killed himself.
Police are still looking for the recorder the man is said to have always carried, in the hope that it will provide information about the fate of the girls.
The father failed to return the girls to their school after they had spent the weekend with him. They lived with their mother in the Lausanne suburb of St-Sulpice. In a letter written to his estranged wife just before his suicide, he said he had killed them.
The search has involved police in Switzerland, France and Italy.
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