A seventy-year-old father shot his two sons in Ajloun Governorate, northern Jordan, on Tuesday evening, which led to their deaths, according to the official Jordan News Agency.Petra“.
Later, the Jordanian General Security announced, “the arrest of a killer and his two sons hiding in a cave in Ajloun Governorate,” adding that the killer “confessed to shooting his two sons following a financial dispute, and the firearm used was seized.”
Public Security: The arrest of a murderer with his two sons yesterday, hiding in a cave in Ajloun Governorate, and by interrogating him, he confessed to shooting his two sons following a financial dispute. The used firearm was seized and the investigation is still ongoing.#General Security #Jordan pic.twitter.com/rzRSpFRXzU
– PSD (@Police_Jo) July 6, 2022
The media spokesman for the Public Security Directorate in Jordan said that the security services have launched an investigation into the incident, noting that “financial differences” were behind the incident.
Hours before the news was published, the Public Prosecutor of the Jordanian High Criminal Court, on Tuesday, charged a father with premeditated premeditated murder twice for a father who killed his two daughters in the country’s Ramtha district, amid calls for the establishment of teams to protect children threatened with violence.
According to the Jordanian authorities, the man beat his two daughters (9 and 12 years old) with a stick, and buried them in the vicinity of his house “to hide the features of the crime,” according to the website.visionThe local news.
According to the website, the Public Prosecutor decided to detain the “abused father” for 15 days pending a renewal of the case.
According to a statement published on the page of the Public Security Directorate, on the website “FacebookInformation was received by the Ramtha District Police Directorate from a woman of Arab nationality that her ex-husband, “who suffers from mental illness and lives in the Ramtha District”, abused and beat her four children on a continuous basis.
The statement explained that the father confessed to hitting one of his daughters with a “stick”, which led to her death, and he buried her in the vicinity of the house. Days later, he beat the other, which led to her death as well, and threw her into a pit next to the house.