Two teenage girls have been shot dead in Pakistan, apparently because of a video of them dancing in the rain.
The girls, aged 15 and 16, were filmed laughing and dancing in the rain in full traditional dress, including headscarves, outside their stone hut in the country’s north six months ago.
Last Sunday, they were killed when five masked men stormed their home and opened fire, also killing the girls’ mother.
Local media has reported police suspect the murders are an “honour killing” in response to the footage of the girls, which has been circulating on mobile phones.
DAWN newspaper claims the girls’ stepbrother considered the dancing video an “assault on the honour of his family” and carried out the attack to punish them for shaming him.
Police are also said to be investigating whether a property dispute, or an audio clip in which the girls can be heard talking to an unknown man, might be the motive.
