Syrian woman, children found dead in Danish freezer

31 October 2016, 2:19 pm

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Danish police say they found the bodies of a slain Syrian refugee and her two young daughters in a freezer in their apartment, as they launched a manhunt for the girls’ father.

The bodies of the 27-year-old mother and her seven- and nine-year-old daughters were found inside a freezer in their apartment in the southern Danish town of Aabenraa after a concerned relative had not heard from them for days.

“Police went into the apartment and found the three bodies in a freezer,” local police say in a statement.

“The victim’s husband and the father of the two children was not in the apartment, and we are actively searching for him,” the statement adds.

The Syrian family arrived in Denmark in 2015 and was granted refugee status.

— AFP