The Policía Judicial de la Guardia Civil have arrested three men for allegedly slitting the throat of a man and stabbing his wife and two children, aged ten and seven.

The gruesome incident occurred on Calle Tarragona in Armilla, Granada when two or three persons stormed into the house, wearing masks and carrying knives. Indications are that it was a score-settling attack against the 31-year-old husband.

It appears that the attackers stabbed the 34-year-old wife three times in the shoulder and twice in the back. The aggressors even made deep cuts to the young children’s necks to coerce the man into disclosing information.

The mother was released from hospital the next day but the two children were kept in The Intensive Care Unit under strict observation.

The husband, however, by the name of Ívan Linares received a brutal beating before having his throat cut in front of his family.

Both the husband and wife have police records connected with drugs, as well as two of the men that have subsequently been arrested, all of which indicates a drug-related score settling.

The police, acting on the wife’s statement, went around to Calle Henrique de Jorquera where the wife’s step-brother and sister-in-law lived, plus a third person. The accounts given by the three individuals contained a great deal of contradictions. Both the step-brother and sister-in-law are deaf-mutes, meaning that the police had to call in a sign-language interpreter.

(News: Armilla, Granada, Andalucia)