India, Aug. 3 -- A 19-year-old man was among two held for allegedly killing a 14-year-old girl and her 12-year-old brother and setting their bodies on fire in Patna district of Bihar, purportedly after the girl refused to continue a relationship with him, police said on Saturday.

The accused, identified as Subham alias Sunny Kumar and Roushan Kumar, killed the girl and her brother after the victims returned home from school in Nagwan village of the district on July 31. According to police, the girl was allegedly strangled while her brother was bludgeoned with a brick, before their bodies were set on fire.

The incident came to light after the victim's mother, a security guard at AIIMS Patna, found her children's body after being informed...