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Six-year-old Swiss twin sisters are missing and their father has been found dead of an apparent suicide in Italy, authorities say.
The Guardian reported Sunday, Alessia and Livia Schepp had been picked up by their 43-year-old Canadian-born father Matthias Schepp at the Lausanne home of their mother Irina Lucidi, 44, on Jan. 28. The three were to have gone to his apartment in Saint-Sulpice.
But there was a side trip to France and Schepp turned up dead Thursday on railroad tracks near Cerignola, Italy, the British newspaper reported.
The hunt for the two girls is now on in Switzerland, Italy and France. Helicopters and trained dogs have joined the search.
"We are putting all our resources at the disposal of the search operation," Alfredo Fabrocini, head of an aerial service in Foggia, said. "The girls may be anywhere, we hope alive."
The Italian news agency ANSA said Schepp and Lucidi, who were separated, both worked for Philip Morris.
"Matthias had not accepted that the marriage was over and was looking for any way to convince Irina to get back with him," said Lucidi's cousin Roberto Mestichelli. "He was really close to his daughters."
Police said Schepp sent his wife a postcard from Marseille, France, on which he reportedly wrote: "Now it is the time to finish it."
Police in Marseille said Schepp bought three tickets to Propriano in Corsica on a ferry leaving Monday night.
UPI
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