Patna, Aug. 3 -- Two minor siblings were burned after being hit with bricks and strangulated in their homes in Bihar's Nagwa village, under the Janipur police station limits. Two people have been arrested in connection with the case, Patna police said.

Patna police's Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Kartikey K Sharma, while addressing a press conference on Saturday (August 2), mentioned that the siblings were sleeping in their houses, when the accused, who was known to the victims, came in with a kerosene bottle, with the intention of killing and burning the victims to hide the evidence. The bodies were first found by the mother of the children, Shobha Devi, an AIIMS Patna security guard.

"It was a pre-planned murder. The accused b...