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American priest, wife shot dead in Pakistan |
ISLAMABAD: A Christian priest and his American wife were shot dead at their home in the Pakistani capital Islamabad in what police said yesterday was a revenge attack for an alleged rape.
A second married couple was apprehended late Wednesday leaving the scene of the murders of Arif Khan, a US national of Pakistani origin, and his American wife, Kathleen Khan, police investigator Manzoor Hussain said.
The detained couple were also Christians and had confessed to the crime, he added.
The wife, a nurse at an Islamabad hospital, accused the priest in her confession of having raped her some months before, when he invited her to prayers at his residence.
The priest filmed the assault and was trying to blackmail her, she claimed.
Khan ministered at a Catholic church in Islamabad’s twin city of Rawalpindi. Police were searching for another Christian man who was thought to be their accomplice. - DPA |
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