PARIS (Reuters) - The bodies of three Kurdish women who appeared to have died from gunshot wounds to the head were found early on Thursday at the Kurdish Institute in Paris, a police source said.

An employee of the institute told French media that one of the women killed was Sakine Cansiz, a founding member of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group.

"There is no doubt this was politically motivated," Berivan Akyol, the employee, told i

(Reporting By Nicolas Bertin, Nicholas Vinocur, additional reporting by Daren Butler; Writing by Nick Vinocur)