3 arrested in case of missing U.S. teen

Three young men previously detained as suspects in the 2005 disappearance of American teenager Natalee Holloway were rearrested Wednesday on the basis of new evidence, the public prosecutor’s office said.

Dutch student Joran van der Sloot and two Surinamese brothers, Satish and Deepak Kalpoe, were arrested on suspicion of involvement in voluntary manslaughter and causing serious bodily harm that resulted in the death of Holloway, the office said in a statement.

No trace of Holloway has been found.

However, Van der Sloot’s mother, speaking from the family’s home in Aruba, said her son had not been arrested but was detained for more questioning.

Holloway, of Mountain Brook, Ala., was last seen May 30, 2005, leaving a bar with the three men hours before she was scheduled to board a plane to return home with high school classmates celebrating their graduation. She was 18.

Hundreds of volunteers, Aruban soldiers, police officers and FBI agents searched for the missing teen.

Van der Sloot and the Kalpoe brothers were detained on suspicion of taking part in her death, but they denied involvement and a judge released them for lack of evidence.

Van der Sloot, 20, was taken into custody in the Netherlands, where he was attending a university. The Kalpoe brothers -- Deepak is 24, Satish, 21 -- were arrested in Aruba.

Hans Mos, chief prosecutor in Aruba, declined to discuss the new evidence or any other details about the case.