Manama: Police in Saudi Arabia have arrested an Indian for the murder of his wife and son in the capital Riyadh.
The police said that they were able to identify the killer nine hours after he committed his double crime and tried to camouflage it by setting their house in the Shumaisi neighbourhood on fire.
The man reportedly admitted to the police that he killed his wife after she discovered that he was having affair with one of his relatives who was living with them.
Riyadh police spokesperson Fawaz Al Miman said that the criminal investigation team found the bodies of the mother and her son and concluded that they had been killed, local daily Okaz reported on Tuesday.
In his confessions, the man said that he killed them after his wife became aware of the affair he was having with the relative.
He added that he then set the house ablaze to conceal the murders and mislead the investigation teams.
Indians are believed to constitute the largest Asian expatriate community in the kingdom where nine million foreigners live, out of a total population of 27 million.
Under Saudi Arabia’s criminal justice system, the death penalty can be imposed for murder.
