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A seven-year-old girl shot and injured in an attack in the French Alps which left her parents dead has been brought out of a coma, BBC reported.

French prosecutor Eric Maillaud said Zainab al-Hilli, from Surrey, is still under sedation and will not be able to be questioned for several more days.

But police hope she will eventually be able provide more information about the shootings.

Mr Maillaud said her four-year-old sister Zeena has returned to the UK.

Zeena lay undiscovered for eight hours after her parents, a woman thought to be her grandmother and a local cyclist died in Wednesday's attack in Chevaline.

Mr Maillaud said: "She returned to the UK by air. On arrival she was put under the care of the authorities and the social services."

In an earlier briefing, Mr Maillaud told reporters Zeena had been interviewed, but he did not see a need to speak to her again as she "did not see anything."

Two relatives of the girls had travelled to France with a British social worker and police family liaison officers.

Meanwhile, police have spent a second day searching the family's home in Claygate.