The Gujrat police on Sunday said that it has arrested six men allegedly involved in the murders of two Spanish sisters who were shot dead in a village in Gujrat district for reportedly failing to take their husbands to Spain. “The police have arrested the six people, including the mastermind, in the tragic incident,” the Punjab police tweeted.
“According to preliminary investigation, the sisters were against their forced marriages and were allegedly killed by their brother and uncle,” it said, adding that the district police officer of Gujrat had been assigned the task of arresting the perpetrators after the inspector-general of Punjab took notice of the incident.
On Friday, Arooj Abbas and Aneesa Abbas, aged between 21 and 23 were found killed in their house. They were severely tortured before being shot dead. The girls were married to their cousins in Pakistan more than a year ago but they were unable to get their respective husbands visas to settle with them in Spain. Their in-laws suspected that they had intentionally delayed the procedure for their husbands’ visas, the police said. According to the police, the sisters’ bodies were shifted to the hospital for autopsy, whereas a team of forensic experts collected forensic evidence from the crime scene.
