(AFP) Police in Italy are searching for the body of an 18-year-old girl suspected to have been killed by her Pakistani family after refusing an arranged Muslim marriage.
The girl’s parents, an uncle and two cousins are under investigation for murder, lieutenant colonel Stefano Bove of the Carabinieri police said Saturday.
All “are supposed to have taken part in the crime,” he told reporters, while officers were combing through farmland to find the missing girl, Saman Abbas.
Bove said the Carabinieri were inspecting “wells, irrigation canals and greenhouses.”
Saman Abbas, who lived in the northern town of Novellara, last year rebelled against her family’s traditional plan to have her wedded to a cousin in their home country.
