Kohistan video case: Prime witness' house attacked, four killed

Five women critically injured; police contingent reaches scene.

ABBOTABAD: At least four people were killed and five women were critically injured when assailants attacked the house of a prime witness in the Kohistan videocase, Express News reported on Friday.

A heavy contingent of police reached the area to find members of the Azad Khel tribe firing at the house, outside which three dead bodies lay. DPO Kohistan Akbar Ahmed Khan verified the number.

Afzal Kohistani was the prime witness in the case where four girls were declared fornicators after they were allegedly caught on videotape singing and dancing together at a wedding ceremony in violation of the “tribal custom of gender segregation”.

He had claimed that the girls had been killed.

Afzal said that the number of people killed was four. He said that three of his brothers and one cousin had been killed while the women inside the house who were reportedly his sisters, sister-in-law and mother, were seriously injured.

The Supreme Court had taken suo motu notice of the case but had ruled in the end that the girls were alive.