PUL-I-ALAM (Pajhwok): Security forces have arrested two individuals accused of brutally killing an elderly woman and a girl in the capital of central Logar province, an official said on Sunday.
Police spokesman Mawlawi Ahmadullah Anas told Pajhwok Afghan News that the suspects knocked unconscious a 60-year-old woman and a 12-year-old girl before killing them with an axe in the Omarabad area of Pul-i-Alam on Saturday night.
He said the perpetrators also took away 200,000 afghanis and 4,000 US dollars from the house.
Anas added that both suspects had been arrested by security forces and they had confessed to their crime.
The detainees would be referred to judicial organs, pending preliminary investigations, the spokesman concluded.
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