Six Afghan refugees have been killed in Surizai village of Peshawar District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after reportedly refusing to agree to their daughter’s marriage to a Pakistan man.
According to the Pakistan Express Tribune, another deceased was a Pakistani relative of the Afghan family.
"Six people of a family have been killed who are Afghan refugees and one of their Pakistani relatives was also killed," an official of the local police station told The Express Tribune on Tuesday.
Police officials said the incident is being investigated.
"One Pakistani and six refugees have been killed. The Pakistani family apparently wanted a girl from the Afghan family for one of its boys but the proposal was refused on the grounds that that they did not want her to marry a Pakistani boy which caused unrest among the two families," he said.
As part of security measures for election day, the Peshawar district administration has imposed a ban on the movement of Afghan refugees from their camps.