France, March 27 -- Cedric Prizzon, a one-time member of the Paris police and former rugby league youth international, is suspected of killing two women whose bodies were found buried in the Serra da Nogueira mountain range in northern Portugal on Wednesday.

Portuguese police said they found the two bodies buried "in an isolated place", one day after stopping Prizzon in a car near Meda - around 150 kilometres from the site.

He was travelling with his two children, a boy of 12 and an 18-month-old baby girl.

Officers found a pump-action shotgun, fake documents and number plates, and €17,000 in cash in the vehicle.

Police said the two bodies found were the "partner and ex-partner" of the suspect, but that "procedures...