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Denmark issues warrant for Syrian suspected in family deaths

Denmark issues warrant for Syrian suspected in family deaths | iNFOnews.ca
Police vehicles outside an apartment building in Aabenraa, Denmark, Monday Oct. 31, 2016, where Danish police say the remains of a 27-year-old Syrian woman and her two daughters, aged 7 and 9, were found in a freezer inside their apartment. Police made the gruesome discovery Sunday in the town of Aabenraa after a relative of the woman told them he hadn’t been able to reach her for a few days. (Claus Bonnerup/AP via Polfoto) DENMARK OUT

COPENHAGEN – Danish police have issued an international arrest warrant for a Syrian refugee whose wife and two daughters were found murdered in the family’s apartment in southern Denmark.

Police said Tuesday they suspect that 33-year-old Hamid Farid Mohammed “may have had something to do with the murders.”

Investigators on Sunday found the remains of the 27-year-old woman and the couple’s daughters, aged 7 and 9, in a freezer inside their apartment in Aabenraa, near the border with Germany.

Mohammed’s whereabouts weren’t known. Police said a court detained him in absentia, allowing investigators to issue a warrant for his arrest in Denmark and internationally.

The family arrived in Denmark in 2015 and received refugee status.

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