Crime of darkest dye: Couple killed in front of children

CHARIKAR (Pajhwok): Unidentified gunmen have shot dead a couple in front of their three children in the Regrawan area of central Kapisa province.

Abdul Shaiq Shurish, the Kapisa police spokesman, said the incident happened on Thursday night. The woman’s ex-fiancé had killed the couple, he added.

Hashmatullah Ishaqzada, in-charge of Kapisa civil society groups, slammed the killing of parents in front of their children as a crime of the darkest dye.

He said two armed men broke into the couple’s home and committed the double murder.

“The couple had three children -- their eldest son is six years-old. The perpetrators used Kalashnikov and a knife to murder the couple,” he explained.

The woman had been married to the man for six years after walking out of her engagement with her former fiancé, who informed the slain man’s brother that he had killed the couple.

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