AMMAN —
Police said they arrested a man who allegedly killed his two daughters and
buried them outside their house in the northern
city of Ramtha, Al-Mamlaka TV
reported.
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Amer Al-Sartawi,
the spokesperson of the
Public Security Directorate, said that Ramtha police
reported a call Monday by an Arab woman complaining about her ex-husband.
She told police
that the man, who allegedly suffered from a mental illness, was continuously
abusing and beating her four children, and that she feared for their lives.
Sartawi said
police apprehended the man, after his two children told the authorities that
their father beat to death their two elder sisters, nine and 12.
The man confessed
that he beat one of the daughters to death 10 days ago, and killed the second
one a few days later.
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