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Brothers arrested again in Aruba case

Two held on suspicion of acting with others in teen's rape, killing

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Satish Kalpoe, right, and brother Deepak leave jail after being freed last month in Aruba.

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(CNN) -- After being detained and then released last month in Natalee Holloway's disappearance, two brothers were arrested again Friday in Aruba on suspicion they acted "together with other people" in raping and killing the Alabama teen, the prosecutor's office said.

Without elaborating on the evidence, the office said in a statement that "new facts and circumstances" led them to re-arrest Satish Kalpoe, 18 and brother Deepak, 21.

"They are suspected of the primary criminal act of together with other people committing premeditated murder, alternately together with other people murdering somebody, more alternately rob a person of her liberty with fatal consequences and even more alternately raping somebody," the statement said.

"Aside from these suspicions against the two brothers, there are new suspicions, which at this point the prosecutor is not commenting on."

Earlier, investigator Roy Tromp said that Dutch interrogators would question the Kalpoes on Friday and Saturday. Aruba is a Dutch territory off Venezuela.

Tromp is the lead investigator for the Aruban police on the Holloway case.

Holloway, 18, from the Birmingham, Alabama, suburb of Mountain Brook, was celebrating her high school graduation with about 100 classmates and several parent chaperones in Aruba when she disappeared May 30.

She was last seen leaving a nightclub with Joran van der Sloot and the Kalpoes, authorities have said.

The Kalpoes and van der Sloot were arrested and jailed June 9.

The Kalpoes were released in July after a judge ruled that there was not enough evidence to hold them any longer.

Van der Sloot remains in custody. No charges have been filed, and defense attorneys have said the three are innocent.

The Kalpoes have told police they dropped Holloway and Van der Sloot off at a beach after they left the nightclub.

Aruban police, Dutch troops and thousands of volunteers have conducted extensive searches of the island but have not found any traces of Holloway.

The teen was to have started her first day of college Wednesday as a freshman at the University of Alabama.

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