A man has been arrested and charged with drunk driving in the deaths of two teenage girls in Middle Township on Tuesday night.

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Police tell WPVI TV Joshua Malmgren, 30, stuck and killed two cousins, Ashley Dauber, 13, and Nioami Lazicki Gaston, 15 in front of the Green Creek Firehouse as they walked along the shoulder of the road at 9:45PM returning from a playground.

A third girl managed to avoid injury.

Malmgren was arrested at the scene and charged with two counts of death by vehicular homicide, a crime of the second degree, driving while intoxicated, reckless driving, failure to maintain a lane of travel and consumption of alcoholic beverage by an operator of a motor vehicle according to WPVI TV .

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