Cleaners arrested over murder of Jordan headmistress

Two domestic workers have been arrested on suspicion of murdering a headmistress in Jordan. Jordan's Public Security Authority said in a statement that it made the arrests after being informed that the body of a woman had been found in her house Jordanian town of Fuheis. On arrival at the scene, security officials discovered that the 65-year-old headteacher had been strangled with a rope. The statement said the Criminal Investigations Administration had arrested the woman’s cleaner, who confessed that she had committed the crime with a friend, also a domestic worker, in order to steal her boss’s jewellery. Both of the women arrested are of Asian origin.