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| Two French students found stabbed to death in a house fire had been bound and suffered "horrific, excessive injuries", police have said. | Two French students found stabbed to death in a house fire had been bound and suffered "horrific, excessive injuries", police have said. |
| The bodies of Laurent Bonomo, 23, and Gabriel Ferez, 23, were found in a ground floor flat in New Cross, south-east London, on Sunday night. | The bodies of Laurent Bonomo, 23, and Gabriel Ferez, 23, were found in a ground floor flat in New Cross, south-east London, on Sunday night. |
| Police said they had suffered head, neck and chest injuries before being set alight in a "frenzied" attack. | Police said they had suffered head, neck and chest injuries before being set alight in a "frenzied" attack. |
| They had been in London for two-months studying DNA at Imperial College. | They had been in London for two-months studying DNA at Imperial College. |
| Det Ch Insp Mick Duthie said he had no idea why the students had been killed. | |
| At a press conference at Scotland Yard, he said the flat had been broken into six days before and a laptop was stolen. | |
| He also said a white male was seen running from the scene and asked for help in tracing him. | |
| He added he was "deeply shocked by the brutal murder and that he had never seen injuries so "horrific". |