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COMPIÈGNE (France): A policeman shot his wife and two of his children, aged 3 and 5, to death on the platform of a train station on Sunday before taking his own life, authorities said.

A family dispute drew police to the couple’s home earlier, when the wife told officers she planned to leave her husband.

The husband was “perfectly calm” and did not object to a neighbour driving his wife to the train station in the northern town of Noyon, prosecutor Virginie Girard said.

The wife left with three of the couple’s five children, while two others stayed with neighbours.

But while the wife and the children waited on the train station platform, the husband appeared suddenly and opened fire.

“The attacker is an officer assigned to police headquarters in Paris who could not accept his spouse’s intention to leave him,” Girard said. AFP