LAHORE, Pakistan -
Pakistani police arrested six males from the identical household on Sunday, accused of murdering two sisters who had been from the identical village but additionally had Spanish citizenship.
Police stated that Urooj Abbas, 21, and Anisa Abbas, 23, had been allegedly killed for refusing to deliver their husbands -- cousins from pressured marriages -- to Spain. They had been severely tortured and shot useless within the Gujrat district of Punjab province, which neighbours India.
Officer Ataur Rehman stated that homicide fees had been levelled towards the victims' brother, a paternal uncle, each husbands, a cousin, and each fathers-in-law. Two unknown suspects and one other relative additionally charged within the homicide had been nonetheless at massive.
Compelled marriages are frequent in rural areas of conservative Pakistan, the place relations do not hesitate to kill girls who refuse them or ignore the opinions of household elders. Rights teams say round 1,000 girls are killed yearly in so-called honour killings in Pakistan.
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