DHAKA: A US father is suspected of killing his five children and dumping their bodies in another state.

Police have said, reports the BBC.

Timothy Ray Jones faces multiples charges in his home state of South Carolina.

He was arrested on Saturday in Mississippi on unrelated charges.

The children, ages one to eight, were reported missing on Wednesday, when their mother told police she could not get in contact with her ex-husband.

Authorities found the children buried near an Alabama highway after an all-day search on Tuesday, local media reported.

Alabama Department of Public Safety spokesman Sgt Steve Jarrett told a news conference on Tuesday Jones led investigators to the children’s bodies.

Smith County, Mississippi, Sheriff Charlie Crumpton told reporters that Jones was stopped at a safety checkpoint on Saturday and was determined to be driving under the influence of drugs,

BDST: 1128 HRS, SEP 10, 2014