Police searching for suspects in murder of sexagenarian

AMMAN — Police are searching for suspects in connection with the stabbing death of a 60-year-old woman in the capital's Um Basateen area, official sources said on Saturday.

A relative found the victim, who was not identified by officials, in a barn near her house on Saturday morning, a senior official source told The Jordan Times.

“The woman died less than 24 hours before that, based on the conclusion of coroners who examined the scene,” the official source said.

The victim’s husband is dead and investigators have summoned her relatives for questioning, according to a second source.

“It is unclear to us why the woman was murdered and we are hopeful that questioning her relatives and tracking down her final movements will help us solve the case,” the source said, adding that her body was transferred to the National Institute of Forensic Medicine for an autopsy.