Sidra Bibi, 18, was reportedly killed on the orders of a local council of elders in eastern Pakistan’s Rawalpindi.
The father and ex-husband of a victim allegedly killed on the orders of a local council are among nine people arrested in eastern Pakistan in connection with the young woman’s death.
Police said Sidra Bibi, 18, was killed allegedly on the orders of a local council of elders in the garrison city of Rawalpindi, after she married a man of her own choosing.
Her relatives buried her body and flattened the land to erase evidence of a grave, police official Aftab Hussain said Monday. The victim was suffocated using a pillow placed over her face, he added.
The arrests came after authorities exhumed the body and carried out an autopsy, which confirmed she had been tortured before being killed.
