Two arrested for murder of British girls

A man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of murdering two missing British schoolgirls, police said on Saturday.Two bodies were late...

A man and a woman have been arrested on suspicion of murdering two missing British schoolgirls, police said on Saturday.

Two bodies were later found by a member of the public in a village five miles away, although police did not immediately confirm their identities.

‘‘In the last few hours a 28-year-old man and a 25-year-old woman have been arrested,’’ Detective Chief Inspector Andy Hebb said in a statement.

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‘‘The man has been arrested for the murder and abduction of Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman,’’ he added. ‘‘The woman has been arrested for the murder of both girls.’’

A police statement later said two bodies had been found in the neighbouring village of Mildenhall. Police had gone to the site to try to identify the bodies and determine how they died.

The 10-year-olds vanished after leaving a family barbecue in Soham in eastern England on August 4. The last sighting of the girls was on security camera footage walking around the town shortly after they vanished from home.