The decomposing bodies of two elderly women were found in Tamwe Township’s Mahlwakone street on Tuesday in a crime that has puzzled police.
Discovered by a neighbor in an area near their shared home’s entrance, the women, a 72-year-old and her 60-year-old niece, had wounds to the head and may have been lying there for days, reports in local media said. They had been restrained with rope around their ankles.
“Both of them used to send flowers to the pagoda. We don’t know when and who killed them,” a local resident told Eleven Media. “Last time I saw them they came back from the market on June 6, then no more.”
A man who delivered milk to the house told Eleven Media that the women lived there for more than two decades and were liked by the community.
“I am very sorry to hear that they were murdered,” he said.
A police officer was quoted as saying that he believed the women were killed two days ago. The house, which had been emptied of many personal affects by the intruder, was full of bloody fingerprints, he said.
Police are investigating.
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