Kuwaiti police have arrested two girls of unknown nationality for allegedly stabbing and beheading their mother, and disposing of the victim's head using a garbage bag found in the family home.

Kuwaiti newspaper Al-Anbaa said that, according to preliminary information, one of the girls drugged the mother and the other slit her throat and then put the head in a garbage bag inside the kitchen.

The police had received intel reporting a murder and the girls were later arrested.

Investigations have been launched.