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An international manhunt is underway to catch the perpetrators of the girl killer named Saman Abbas.
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The victim’s parents, uncle and two cousins are accused of conspiring to kill him and flee Italy.
Police investigators believe they plotted the plot after the victim refused to marry her cousin in Pakistan because she already had an Italian lover.
According to police, Saman went missing from a farm near the central Italian city of Reggio Emilia on May 31 after saying he wanted to live a “Western lifestyle”.
The victim’s father Shabbar, 46, who works in Italy, is accused of conspiring with his mother Nazia Shaheen, 47, uncle Hasnain Danish, 33, and his two cousins Nomanulhaq, 33, and Ijaz, 28, to kill and bury the victim’s body behind a farm before leaving Italy. .
Ijaz has been arrested in France on suspicion of murder and extradited back to Italy.
Shabbar and Nazia remain in Pakistan and have denied involvement in the killings of their daughter.
The whereabouts of the alleged masterminds of the killings, Hasnain and Nomanulhaq, are unknown.
Prosecutors allege the family tried to force Saman into an arranged marriage in his native Pakistan last summer.
The victim fled home after an altercation in October and is staying in a shelter run by social services fearing for her safety.
Saman reportedly returned home apparently to collect identity documents on April 11.
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