Two arrested for double murder in Piteå

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Two people have been arrested on suspicion of the double murder in Piteå at the end of January, local media report. It concerns a man in his 40s and a woman in her 30s. The man was arrested last week, but the woman is still at large and was arrested in absentia.

It was on the evening of Friday, January 31, that two men, aged 60 and 65, were found dead in a villa in Piteå.

A man in his 30s has been arrested on suspicion of murder since earlier.

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