THE man suspected of shooting dead his daughter and her mum blasted his face off when he tried to kill himself,

THE man suspected of shooting dead his daughter and her mum blasted his face off when he tried to kill himself, it emerged yesterday.
The kick of his double-barrelled shotgun forced it to slip as he pulled the trigger.

He was left "unrecognisable" but is expected to survive. A source told The Sun: "Many will see the horrific wounds as some sort of justice."

Chrissie Chambers, 38, and two-year-old daughter Shania were gunned down in their home on Sunday. Chrissie's ex, David Oakes, was taken to hospital with terrible face wounds.

Oakes - 6ft 4ins and 18 stone - had split with Chrissie seven weeks earlier. He was due to face Chrissie in court over a custody battle for Shania.

Chrissie's other daughter Chelsea, ten, fled the house in Braintree, Essex, after her mum begged her: "Run! Save yourself while you can."

Chelsea clambered from a window in her nightie as the killer forced a gun into her mother's mouth. She ran half a mile to her father Ian Flitt's home.

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POLICE are investigating reports of a mass grave in Texas containing dozens of bodies following a tip off to police.

Cops were called to a house where dismembered remains of 25 to 30 people including children were thought to be found.

Police activity was focused on a rural area of fields and a small wooded zone, with police positioning themselves near a house surrounded by trees.

A neighbour said the occupant of the house lived there with her fiance but moved out of the property a week ago. Her parents also lived at the house but were long-haul truck drivers.

Police rushed to the property between Hardin and Daisetta, Liberty County, and are now seeking a search warrant to search the home after finding blood at the scene.

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Police in Texas may have found a mass grave containing up to 30 dismembered bodies, possibly all children

Police in Texas may have found a mass grave containing up to 30 dismembered bodies, possibly all children, according to local media reports.

But the Liberty County sheriff's office said there was no evidence yet that any bodies had been discovered.

Liberty County sheriff's department spokesman Rex Evans said the office had received an anonymous report on Tuesday that there were bodies in the house in a rural location around 70 miles east of Houston.

KPRC television, a local station, said 25 to 30 bodies were found by officers acting on a tip-off.

FBI spokeswoman Kim Barkhausen in Houston confirmed to the Reuters news agency that the FBI had been asked to help with an investigation, but would not elaborate.

Preliminary reports indicated the bodies are those of children, the TV station reported.

One local paper, the Cleveland Advocate, said the tipster told authorities dozens of dismembered bodies were buried at the scene.

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