• A teenage girl in Iran was killed by her father who blasted her with a shotgun in the heart.
• The death was an apparent so-called “honour killing” in the country.
• In Iran, a father does not incur the death penalty if he kills his child.

Iranian local media said on Friday that a teenage girl was shot; in the heart with a shotgun by her father, who then killed her. Women’s activists claimed that the father confronted his 16-year-old daughter; after she had met a young guy in the southern city of Nurabad; resulting in the death, which was apparently; a so-called “honour killing” in the nation.

After a disagreement with her father; the child rushed to her grandmother’s home where she was challenged.

According to the father, who was quoted on the Rokna news website; “I didn’t actually plan to murder my kid; I shot accidently.” I merely went there with a shotgun to frighten her.

The 43-year-old father was detained; and “admitted to his crime,” Rokna continued.

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If a parent kills his child, there is no death punishment in Iran. There are no exact statistics on honour killings in Iran; but the ISNA news agency estimates there are “between 375 and 450 cases; of honour killings” a year.

According to ISNA, these murders make up about a fifth of all homicides; in the Islamic republic.

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