Belgium: suspect in schoolgirl slayings to remain jailed, court rules

Belgium: suspect in schoolgirl slayings to remain jailed, court rules

A court ruled that a suspect must remain jailed, despite his lawyers arguing there is no evidence linking him to the girls' disappearance and slaying.

Results of autopsies on the two girls were expected later Thursday.

Mourners laid flowers and placed candles near the spot where the remains of 7-year-old Stacy Lemmens and Nathalie Mahy, 10, were found Wednesday stuffed into a storm sewer covered by thick undergrowth alongside a railroad line running through this gritty eastern steel town, the AP reports.