Police in Al-Ahsa have arrested one man over the killing of a woman in her eighties and her housemaid of Asian nationality in the town of Al-Tarf last Saturday. The bodies of the two women were found by a relative of the elderly lady who entered the house where they lived alone after no one responded to his knocks at the door. Relatives said the woman appeared to have been strangled, while the housemaid was found with multiple stab wounds in the neck and chest. Police said that investigations had led to the arrest of one person and that their inquiries were continuing.