The wife’s body, which was stuffed in a brown luggage bag, was found in a drain on Persiaran Kuala Selangor, Section 27 here, on Monday by two telecommunication company employees inspecting underground cable works at about 5.30am.

Her husband’s body, also stuffed in a suitcase, was found near the Alam Megah LRT station yesterday.

The woman was identified as Tan Siew Mee, 52, a restaurant manager in Subang Jaya. Her husband was Lim Ah Kee, 79.

Shah Alam district police chief Baharudin Mat Taib said the suspects, aged 19 and 24, who were working as security guards at a shopping centre, were arrested in Subang Jaya and Kota Kemuning yesterday.

Preliminary investigations found that the couple were murdered between midnight last Friday and early Saturday morning at a condominium unit which was rented by the couple in Subang Jaya.

“The suspects, who are brothers, had been renting a room at the condominium unit for the past six months.

“The male victim was believed to have been murdered in the living room of the condominium at about 10pm on Friday. The wife only knew about it when she returned home about 2am,” he told a media conference here today.

Baharudin said police believed an argument broke out between Tan and her two tenants after she found out about her husband’s murder. This ended in the two men killing her.

The suspects then took the suitcases, stuffed with the couple’s bodies, on a motorcycle and dumped them into a drain at separate locations in Section 27.

“Police have found the knife, believed to have been used in the murder,” he said, adding that the two suspects would be remanded for a week to facilitate investigations.

He said the bodies of the couple were at the Tengku Ampuan Rahimah Hospital in Klang and had yet to be claimed.