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Pakistan “Honor killings”: Couple, including teenage bride, mother, sister murdered

(Pakistan) Honour killings: Couple, 3 relatives gunned down
— “More than three-dozen attackers were dressed in Punjab police uniforms and fully equipped to avenge the so-called dishonour brought to the family due to the elopement of the girl.”

— Couple shot dead for eloping – police
— AFP: “Relatives of a Pakistani teenager who eloped and married without parental consent shot her dead in a raid on her new home which also killed her husband and in-laws, police said.”
— “‘They killed the bride, the mother and sister of the bridegroom,’ said Charsadda district police official Saleem Jan.”
— “‘They beat them first and then shot them dead,’ he told AFP.”

— Newly-wed couple among five shot dead in Charsadda
— police describe the bride aged 18-19 was “from the deeply conservative Mardan district next to Charsadda”

Daily Telegraph: “Human rights groups have strongly condemned the practice of honour killings in Pakistan, which claim the lives of hundreds of women each year.”