PARIS (Reuters) - The seven-year-old British girl who survived a gun attack in the French Alps last week that saw her father and mother shot dead in their car is out of a coma and will be questioned by police as soon as she is able, the French prosecutor said on Sunday.

French and British police continued their search of the family house on Sunday of Saad al-Hilli, the Iraqi-born British driver who was shot twice in the head along with his wife, an older woman and a passing cyclist on Wednesday.

French and British police officers leave the leave the home of Saad al-Hilli in Claygate, south of London September 8, 2012. Police investigating a gruesome family murder in the French Alps are looking at several theories, including that the British man shot dead in his car with his wife and another woman was involved in a financial feud with his brother. REUTERS/Olivia Harris

"She (Zainab) has come out of her artificial coma and she is now sedated," State Prosecutor Eric Maillaud told Reuters.

He said an uncle and aunt of Zainab, who had suffered serious skull fractures in the attack, were by her side at the hospital in Grenoble.

Maillaud said her youngest sister, four-year-old Zeena, who survived unscathed after the shootings on a remote forest road near the village of Chevaline, had now returned to Britain.

Police hope Zainab will eventually provide more information on the shootings.

Maillaud said a family feud over money was one of several motives still being considered for the murders and Hilli's brother had been formally questioned.

The brother has denied any dispute with Hilli, who lived in Surrey, south of London.

(Reporting By Sophie Louet and John Irish; Editing by Sophie Hares)

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