Denmark issues warrant for Syrian suspected in family deaths

Published November 01, 2016

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 (The Associated Press)

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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