Pakistani man slays former fiancée and family in dowry row
A Pakistani man has shot and killed his former fiancée and nine of her relatives in the country’s northwest, police say.
Police named the 25-year-old suspect as Mir Ahmad Shah, adding that he was currently on the run after carrying out the attack with an AK-47 assault rifle in the Charsadda district of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Sunday.
"He stormed the house and killed all ten family members while they were asleep," said Shafiullah Khan, the district police chief, adding that two children and four women were among the dead.
Police have said that an extensive search has been launched to find Shah and that three raids in to his probable hideouts have been conducted.
According to Khan, Shah was already a fugitive for killing his parents and elder brothers six months ago because they had refused to accept a request by the father of his then-fiancée for a dowry settlement of a residential plot.
Another police official said that after murdering his own family members, Shah became angry with his would-be in-laws for the dowry demands.
A third police official said that the murderer was also related to his former fiancée.
In Pakistan, the dowry is paid by the groom or his relatives to the bride in the form of gifts or money.
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