A
man killed his two sisters on the eve of their weddings in Pakistan’s central
Punjab province, police said Saturday, in the latest case of so-called “honour”
killings in the country.
Kosar
and Gulzar Bibi, aged 22 and 28, were shot dead by 35-year-old brother Nasir
Hussain on Friday as they prepared to marry men they had chosen themselves,
senior police officer Mehar Riaz told AFP.
Hussain objected to the love matches
and had wanted the women to marry someone within the extended family, he added.
“The
brother shot dead both the sisters yesterday and fled the site,” the officer
said, adding that a search was underway.
“It is a simple case of killing for honour,” he said. Father
of the family Atta Mohammad told reporters that Hussain had “destroyed
everything”. “He ruined my family, he destroyed us, he destroyed everything”
Mohammad said.
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