A couple who ran a supermarket in a small town in eastern France have lost their jobs after their trophy pictures from a safari hunt went viral.

The 2015 pictures show the couple posing over a dead hippopotamus, zebra, leopard and lion.

The Super U co-operative group's store in the Rhône town of L'Arbresle had seen calls for a shop boycott widely shared on Facebook.The group announced the couple were leaving with immediate effect.