Pakistani fugitive 鈥榠n dowry massacre鈥
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A MAN in northwest Pakistan gunned down his former fiancee and nine of her relatives yesterday, police said, six months after murdering his own parents and two brothers for refusing to pay his dowry.
The 25-year-old suspect, whom police named as Mir Ahmad Shah, was on the run after carrying out the pre-dawn attack with an AK-47 rifle in the Charsadda district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
鈥淗e stormed the house and killed all 10 family members while they were asleep,鈥 district police chief Shafiullah Khan said, adding that two children and four women were among the dead.
Khan said Shah was already a fugitive wanted for the murder of his parents and two elder brothers last year. His family had refused to accept a demand by the father of his then-fiancee for a residential plot as a dowry.
Gulzar Khan, another police official, said that after murdering members of his own direct family, Shah became enraged at his prospective in-laws for making the demand.
Shah was also the second cousin of his former fiancee, said Abdul Rashid, another senior police officer.
Police said they have raided three of his suspected hideouts and tightened security at entry points to tribal region.
Marriages in Pakistan are usually arranged, and often take place between cousins. Brides鈥 families sometimes demand a hefty dowry as a form of insurance in case the marriage ends in divorce.
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