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21/05/2010
Indian Cemetery Defiled By Multiple Killings
The peace of an Indian cemetery has been shattered with a multiple murder taking place.
While paying their respects at the graveside, a couple from Lancashire and their daughter were shot dead in Pakistan yesterday in a family dispute over their son's arranged marriage.
Mohammad Yousaf, 51, his wife Parviaz, 49, and daughter Tania, 21, were killed at the cemetery in a village near Gujrat in north-east Pakistan.
The three - from Nelson, Lancashire - were killed by four gunmen who are understood to be related to them, after an argument broke out while another woman was also killed in the slaughter.
Two men have been arrested while two others are said to be 'on the run'.
The killings followed a row over the relationship between a son of the Yousafs and a local woman, according to a family friend.
Two of the Yousafs' sons had returned early to Lancashire from Pakistan but had flown back after being told of the deaths.
Lancashire police said officers were providing support to family members in Nelson and working with Pakistani authorities.
The family, who had lived in the UK for more than 30 years, had gone to Pakistan for their son's wedding.
The Foreign Office said it was investigating reports of the shooting.
A spokesman for the British High Commission in Islamabad said: "We can confirm the death of three British nationals in Pakistan on 20 May. We have offered consular assistance to the family and we are in touch with the local authorities."
(BMcC/GK)
While paying their respects at the graveside, a couple from Lancashire and their daughter were shot dead in Pakistan yesterday in a family dispute over their son's arranged marriage.
Mohammad Yousaf, 51, his wife Parviaz, 49, and daughter Tania, 21, were killed at the cemetery in a village near Gujrat in north-east Pakistan.
The three - from Nelson, Lancashire - were killed by four gunmen who are understood to be related to them, after an argument broke out while another woman was also killed in the slaughter.
Two men have been arrested while two others are said to be 'on the run'.
The killings followed a row over the relationship between a son of the Yousafs and a local woman, according to a family friend.
Two of the Yousafs' sons had returned early to Lancashire from Pakistan but had flown back after being told of the deaths.
Lancashire police said officers were providing support to family members in Nelson and working with Pakistani authorities.
The family, who had lived in the UK for more than 30 years, had gone to Pakistan for their son's wedding.
The Foreign Office said it was investigating reports of the shooting.
A spokesman for the British High Commission in Islamabad said: "We can confirm the death of three British nationals in Pakistan on 20 May. We have offered consular assistance to the family and we are in touch with the local authorities."
(BMcC/GK)
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