Police are searching for a man who allegedly bludgeoned his wife and daughter with a hammer and fled their Fairfax City home.

Warrants for malicious wounding have been obtained for Mouloud Mouloua, 51, who allegedly struck the 41-year-old-woman and 17-year-old girl early Wednesday morning at their residence on Fairhaven Court, according to the Fairfax City Police Department. Both the wife and daughter suffered severe trauma to the upper body.

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