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PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Police in Pakistan are investigating the killing of an 18-year old woman after villager elders called for her death because she had appeared in a picture on social media, police said on Monday, the latest victim of a so-called honour killing.
Police said the woman had been killed after a council of elders, known as a jirga, had ordered that she and a friend, who also appeared in the picture, be killed. Some relatives of the dead woman were among the suspects, police said.
Some people had uploaded pictures of the two girls," said Masood Khan, deputy superintendent of police in the Kolai-Palas district in the mountains of northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border.
"They shot dead one of them while police rescued the second one," he said, referring to villagers.
Every year, hundreds of women in Muslim Pakistan are victims of honour killings, carried out by relatives professing to be acting in defence of a family's honour, rights group say, often in deeply conservative rural areas.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, Nov 27 (Reuters) - Police in Pakistan are investigating the killing of an 18-year old woman after villager elders called for her death because she had appeared in a picture on social media, police said on Monday, the latest victim of a so-called honour killing.
Police said the woman had been killed after a council of elders, known as a jirga, had ordered that she and a friend, who also appeared in the picture, be killed. Some relatives of the dead woman were among the suspects, police said.
Some people had uploaded pictures of the two girls," said Masood Khan, deputy superintendent of police in the Kolai-Palas district in the mountains of northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border.
"They shot dead one of them while police rescued the second one," he said, referring to villagers.
Every year, hundreds of women in Muslim Pakistan are victims of honour killings, carried out by relatives professing to be acting in defence of a family's honour, rights group say, often in deeply conservative rural areas.
