Elmwood Park

In a gruesome incident, a 100-year-old man has killed his sleeping wife with an axe, before fatally cutting himself to death with a knife in the US state of New Jersey.

The two men Mohamed Hamoud Alessa, 20, of North Bergen, and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 24, of Elmwood Park were arrested at John F Kennedy airport in New York before they could board separate flights to Egypt from where they were heading to Somalia to join al Shabaab, the Islamist group, which has links to al Qaeda, justice officials said.

In a gruesome incident, a 100-year-old man has killed his sleeping wife with an axe, before fatally cutting himself to death with a knife in the US state of New Jersey.

The two men Mohamed Hamoud Alessa, 20, of North Bergen, and Carlos Eduardo Almonte, 24, of Elmwood Park were arrested at John F Kennedy airport in New York before they could board separate flights to Egypt from where they were heading to Somalia to join al Shabaab, the Islamist group, which has links to al Qaeda, justice officials said.