Man strangles teenage niece for 'honour' in Mansehra

Suspect, who has been arrested, initially tried to make the killing appear as suicide

MANSEHRA: A teenage girl was strangled to death by her uncle for 'honour' in a remote village of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (K-P)’s Mansehra district, police sources said on Thursday.

The suspect, who has been arrested, had initially tried to make the killing appear as suicide; however, post-mortem examination of the victim revealed she was strangled to death, sources told The Express Tribune.

Misbah Bibi, a 9th grade student, left her home for half an hour on Wednesday afternoon for an unknown reason. However, her uncle Khan Muhammad suspected she went to meet her alleged boyfriend from the same village, Lassan Nawab Sahib Police said.



Muhammad first beat his niece and later strangled her to death before escaping from the village, police sources added.

After the news of Misbah’s death broke out in the village, the family initially tried to give an impression of suicide but torture marks on her body helped police crack the case.

According to the doctor who carried out Misbah’s post-mortem examination, her body carried marks of torture which suggested she had been mercilessly beaten before death.

The accused was later arrested from a nearby village as police carried out an intelligence-based raid during the early hours on Thursday. A local magistrate has handed him over to the police on a two-day physical remand while further investigations are underway.