Girl killed

Published February 11, 2012

SUKKUR, Feb 11: A young girl was killed in the name of honour in Bakhshoo Seelro village near Pano Akil on Saturday.

Ameer Bux had been suspecting that his sister’s daughter, Jeejan, 20, had illicit relations with a neighbour. He shot her dead in her house.

Police took the body to Pano Akil Taluka Hospital and, after post-mortem, handed it over to relatives.—Correspondent

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