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Girl injured for sake of ‘honour’ dies

VEHARI: A 17-year-old girl, who was shot and injured by her uncle a few days back for the sake of ‘honour’, died at the Nishtar Hospital in Multan on Tuesday night.

Luddan SHO Rana Khalid said that Zahoor of Chak-55KB suspected that his niece had an affair with a boy of the same village.

He said that suspect Zahoor had committed the crime on the instigation of victim’s grandfather Ghulam Muhammad.

The SHO said police had arrested both suspects Zahoor and Ghulam Muhammad and registered a murder case against them.

Published in Dawn, December 29th, 2016

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