diff --git a/internal/buffer/line_array.go b/internal/buffer/line_array.go
index 75a5658c..3aae47ba 100644
--- a/internal/buffer/line_array.go
+++ b/internal/buffer/line_array.go
@@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ func (la *LineArray) remove(start, end Loc) []byte {
 	if start.Y == end.Y {
 		la.lines[start.Y].data = append(la.lines[start.Y].data[:startX], la.lines[start.Y].data[endX:]...)
 	} else {
-		la.deleteLines(start.Y, end.Y-1)
+		la.deleteLines(start.Y+1, end.Y-1)
 		la.deleteToEnd(Loc{startX, start.Y})
 		la.deleteFromStart(Loc{endX - 1, start.Y + 1})
 		la.joinLines(start.Y, start.Y+1)
@@ -254,7 +254,7 @@ func (la *LineArray) deleteLine(y int) {
 }
 
 func (la *LineArray) deleteLines(y1, y2 int) {
-	la.lines = la.lines[:y1+copy(la.lines[y1:], la.lines[y2:])]
+	la.lines = la.lines[:y1+copy(la.lines[y1:], la.lines[y2+1:])]
 }
 
 // DeleteByte deletes the byte at a position