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TURKEY - GIRL BURIED ALIVE IN HONOUR
KILLING
The hole where Medine Memi was buried
alive by relatives in the courtyard of their house in Adiyaman, southeastern
A
16-year-old girl was buried alive by relatives in southeast
Acting
on a tip-off, police discovered Medine Memi's body in a sitting position with
her hands tied, in a two-metre-deep hole in a chicken pen outside her house in
Kahta town, Adiyaman province, 40 days after she went missing, the agency said.
A subsequent post mortem examination revealed that she had a significant amount
of soil in her lungs and stomach, meaning that she was buried alive, forensic
experts said.
"The autopsy result is blood-curdling. According to our findings, the girl
-- who had no bruises on her body and no sign of narcotics or poison in her
blood -- was alive and fully conscious when she was buried," one anonymous
expert said.
Medine's father and grandfather have been formally arrested and jailed pending
trial over her killing, the agency said.
The father is reported to
have said in his testimony that the family was unhappy she had male friends.
In honour killings, most prevalent in
But the practice has gone so far as to kill rape victims or women who simply
talked to strange men.
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