International police organisation Interpol has arrested a Dutch citizen in Peru on suspicion of committing a double homicide in neighbouring Bolivia.

The Peruvian newspaper El Comercio reports that Patrick van der Berg from the town of Leiderdorp allegedly killed his 29-year-old wife Lucy Luisa Molina Gonzalez and their six-month-old son in Bolivia. he was arrested  in a shopping mall in Miraflores, a district in the Peruvian capital Lima.

Patrick van der Berg was reportedly also responsible for the killing of a female friend in Chile and later fled to Bolivia, which has filed an extradition request with the Peruvian authorities.

(gsh/rk)

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