Rome: An 18-year old girl of Pakistan origin is suspected to have beenkilled by her family after she refused to marry through the arrangedmarriage system.
Police in Italy are searching for the body of the girl identified as SamanAbbas is suspected to have been killed by her Pakistani family after sherefused to marry someone as per her family’s traditional plan.
Saman’s family wanted her to marry a cousin in Pakistan, but she protested.
Reportedly, girl’s parents, an uncle and two cousins are underinvestigation for the suspected murder case.
However, police officers were searching through farmland to find the girl.
The missing girl, Saman who lived in the northern town of Novellara.
After refusing her parent’s traditional plan and being a minor, she turnedto social services and in November was moved into a shelter home. Shereported her parents to the police as well, but on April 11 returned tothem.
Police visited her house and found nobody which trigged an investigation.Officers then discovered that the girl’s parents had left for Pakistanwithout their daughter, and found images from a nearby security camera thatmade them fear the worst.
Police have been searching for her since May 5
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Investigators found a CCTV footage of April 29, where five people canclearly be seen walking off from the house holding shovels, a crowbar and abucket, and returning after about two and a half hours.
The Carabinieri which is national gendarmerie of Italy who primarily carryout domestic policing duties, have identified the five as the familymembers suspected of murder.
All are believed to have left Italy for Pakistan.
Carabinieri is one of Italy’s main law enforcement agencies, alongside thePolizia di Stato and the Guardia di Finanza.
Meanwhile, hundreds of people took part in a solidarity rally for themissing girl that was organised on Friday night by the town hall ofNovellara.
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