Three members of a British family visiting Pakistan were shot dead by their relatives yesterday in a dispute over an arranged marriage between cousins.
Mohammad Yousaf, 51, his wife Parviaz, 49, and their daughter, Tania, 23, from Nelson, in Lancashire, were killed in the eastern city of Gujrat when tensions over the breakdown of the marriage between their eldest son and their niece ended in tragedy.
The marriage finished about a year ago but the wife’s brother — who is also Mr Yousaf’s nephew — is believed to have harbored a grudge that his sister was being divorced.
Four gunmen, believed to include Mr Yousaf’s nephew and other family members who were angry about the divorce, opened fire at the end of a funeral that they were attending. The family had been in the country to celebrate the wedding of another of their three sons.
Two of the gunmen were arrested in connection with the attack, which also left a female member of the extended family dead.
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