According to the police, the parents allegedly tortured their daughter under the influence of drugs. (Representational image)
Highlights
- Parents allegedly tortured their daughter under the influence of drugs
- Child's body was kept in freezer for a week before being discovered
- Three-year-old's body found with burns on the shoulder and legs
Kuwaiti police have arrested a father and a mother on suspicion of beating to death their three-year-old daughter and hiding her body in a freezer, the interior ministry said.
The ministry, quoted by official KUNA news agency late Sunday, said Salem Buhan, 26, and his wife, Amira Hussein, 23, were accused of beating and torturing the child, while under the influence of drugs.
The ministry, without giving dates, said the body had been kept in a freezer for a week before police uncovered the crime. The body was found with burn signs on the shoulder and legs, it said.
The father has three other young children, according to the report.