In pictures: foot-and-mouth in France

France faces the horror of an epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease, after it confirms its first case of infection.

The first French cattle infected with foot-and-mouth are killed at La Baroche Gondouin near Laval, western France

They are then burned in an attempt to stop the disease spreading further

...before being buried by bulldozers

Gendarmes surround the farm in a protective ring

But the restrictions have angered farmers and livestock wholesalers

France had tried to stop the disease spreading from Britain with pre-emptive slaughters but without success

France was hit before in an epidemic in 1974 - here a couple crosses disinfected sand on the way to their wedding