<p>BERLIN — A woman and a four-year-old girl were found shot to death in a car in a rural area north of Vienna, Austrian authorities said Sunday.</p>
<p>Police are trying to determine the whereabouts of the 29-year-old woman’s ex-partner.</p>
<p>A spokesman for Lower Austria police said a witness reported finding a car with two bodies inside early Sunday afternoon in the Mistelbach district, 40 kilometers (25 miles) from the capital.</p>
<p>Officers didn’t immediately find a firearm at the scene before cordoning it off for specialist investigators, said police spokesman Raimund Schwaigerlehner.</p>
<p>Heavily armed police went to the ex-partner’s home but did not find him there. The man is not currently being treated as a suspect, said Schwaigerlehner.</p>
<p>In a separate incident, police in neighboring Switzerland said Sunday that two people, a 44 -year-old woman and a 53-year-old man, were found dead near the southern town of Bellinzona.</p>
<p>Local newspaper Corriere del Ticino reported that police are investigating it as a possible murder-suicide.</p>
