Friday, September 23, 2005

Girl's Nose Cut Off When Asked for Divorce

A Pakistani man has cut off the nose and lips of his 19-year-old sister-in-law after she went to court for a divorce in a tribal area of the central province of Punjab.

According to the police official, Mohammad Hasan Abbas first shot at Amna Abbas and her brother, causing them to fall off a bicycle, as they headed home from a court in Dera Ghazi Khan, a town 125 km southwest of Multan. Abbas then attacked the girl, hacking off her nose and slicing off her lips.

A doctor treating the girl said her nose had been cut off from the bridge and her lips partially severed. "She says her brother-in-law had told her he would not leave her fit for any other man, while committing the savage, inhuman act," Dr Farhat Hussain was reported to have said.

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