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Teenage girl strangled in 'honour killing'
17-year-old girl died after being strangled to death by her brother in a squalid Palestinian refugee camp that clings to a hillside near the Jordanian town of Jerash.
- Agencies
- Published: 11:12 January 28, 2008
ordan: A 17-year-old girl died after being strangled to death by her brother in a Palestinian refugee camp near the Jordanian town of Jerash .
He was apparently angered by her absence from home.
The woman, who had been married for eight months, was accused of shaming her family and killed in a so-called "honour" crime.
This is the second murder of its kind in a month.
A Jordanian prosecutor has charged the victim's brother, a 20-year-old man, with premeditated murder.
Local newspapers reported that he had stuffed a scarf in his sister's mouth, choked her with an electric cable and smoked a pack of cigarettes before turning himself in.
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