Two German nationals have died in a suspected violent attack in a residential area on Spain’s Mediterranean coast near Alicante, Spanish police said on Tuesday.
Spanish authorities said the incident occurred on Monday in a residential area near El Pinet beach in the municipality of Elche, in south-eastern Spain.
A third German was taken to hospital with serious injuries.
Two Polish citizens have been arrested as suspected perpetrators after initially barricading themselves in a house in the complex for several hours.
After a 20-hour siege, special forces from the Guardia Civil police unit forcibly entered the house on Tuesday when negotiations for a voluntarily surrender failed, according to local media reports.
The police said the arrest went off without incident, and no weapons or hostages were found.
Investigators believe the two German victims died as a result of extreme violence, with no indications that firearms were used.
According to the regional newspaper Información and other local media, police are investigating a dispute over the use of the house as a possible motive.
The Polish suspects are believed to have been living in the property illegally, while the victims were reportedly friends of the owner.
Police were alerted when a resident saw what appeared to be a lifeless body being carried out of the house. The bodies of the two Germans were later discovered on the street on Monday evening.
The two suspects were expected to be brought before an investigating magistrate on Tuesday.