Two men aged 19 and 21 from Bulboaca village of Anenii Noi district were arrested on suspicion that they killed two men on New Year’s Eve, IPN reports.

On January 1, the Orhei Police Inspectorate was phoned by a man who said that he discovered two bodies on the territory of the sheepfold in Malaiesti village of Orhei district. When on the spot, the police established that the victims were two shepherds aged 37 and 48. Medical examiners determined that the men died as a result of blows to the head.

When being questioned by the police, the suspects admitted their guilt, saying they committed the murder as a result of a spontaneous quarrel that started when they were drinking alcohol. Aiming to hide the crime, the two buried the mobile phone of one of the victims and a hammer several hundred meters away.

The two young men face up to 20 years in jail or life.