The girl's mother reportedly raised the alarm after taking her daughter to hospital, where she received life-saving surgery.

'They tasted good and I didn't get sick,' she said.

His associate was also killed in the shooting.

He is survived by his wife, also a doctor, and their only remaining child, who was seriously hurt.

Madeleine was three when she disappeared on May 3, 2007, during a family trip to the child-friendly resort of Praia da Luz in the Algarve region.

'Putin cannot be seen to look weak'.

The arm’y bomb squad was called in as the suspect is thought to have been armed with explosives (Picture: Niall Carson/PA Wire)

It has been described as the 'the worst day in the history of the Russian air force'.

'What on Earth is someone like that doing mixed up in drugs?'