SAR-I-PUL (Pajhwok): A 22-year-old girl has been killed and a teenaged girl saved from committing suicide in northern Sar-i-Pul province, police official said on Tuesday.
Police spokesman Din Mohammad Nazari identified the girl as Latifa who was killed in her house in Fereshqan village of Sancharak district on Monday afternoon at 2:00pm.
He said the marks of beating were visible on the head and neck of the slain woman, but the motive behind the murder was yet to be ascertained and police arrested her father in connection with the killing.
According to another report, police have saved an 18-year-old girl who wanted to commit suicide after jumping into a deep well, Nazari said.
He called the suicide attempt of this young girl a threat from her family and said that two members of her family were arrested.
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