Police on Saturday said that a man has confessed to murdering his five-year-old son in the northern Badia in Jordan shortly after being arrested while attempting to cross the border.
Police Spokesperson Lt. Col. Amer Sartai said that the authorities received a tip-off that a man “was attempting to cross the borders illegally with another man and were immediately arrested by the Badia forces”.
“One of the two men confessed to strangling his son and throwing his body in a pond,” the police official said.
A special force headed to the pond where the man claimed to have dumped his son’s body, “and found a little boy floating,” Sartawi added.
“We still do not have a motive for the murder and currently questioning both men to learn more about the incident,” the police official added.
A senior judicial source said that Criminal Court Prosecutor Hilal Hawamdeh was to start questioning the suspect late Saturday night to “learn more about the motives and to level charges against him.”
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This article has been adapted from its original source.
