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From correspondents in Karachi
August 24, 2006 12:00
FIVE people including a teenaged couple who married against their families' will have been killed by relatives in the latest incident of so-called honour killing in Pakistan, police said today.
Killings carried out in the name of a family's honour are common in Pakistan's conservative rural areas where old feudal and tribal traditions still hold sway.
The couple – Kamalan and Allah Rakhio – both 18 and from rival clans in the southern province of Sindh, had married about three months ago after eloping, said Usman Subaho, a police officer investigating the case.
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The attackers stormed the couple's house early yesterday morning killing them and three other family members including a three-year-old girl, said Subaho.
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