Yemeni burns daughter to death for contacting fiance: police <http://www.reuters.com/> Description: ReutersReuters 14 hours ago
DUBAI (Reuters) - A Yemeni father has burned his 15-year-old daughter to
death for keeping in touch with her fiance, police said, sparking further
outrage in Yemen, where an eight-year girl died from internal bleeding on
her wedding night a month ago.
Police said a 35-year-old man had been arrested after the teenager's death
in a remote village in the central Taiz province.
"The father committed this heinous crime on the pretext that his daughter
had been keeping contacts with her fiance," the police website said on
Tuesday, giving no further details.
Some local news websites reported that the father had caught the girl
chatting by telephone with her fiance.
Traditional tribal customs in parts of Yemen prohibit contacts between men
and women before marriage. Poverty and concern about "family honor" prompts
many Yemenis to marry off their daughters young, often below the age of 18,
a practice that has been criticized by international rights groups.
Yemeni authorities said last month they were investigating the death of the
eight-year-old girl in northern Yemen, and that they would prosecute those
responsible.
(Reporting by Sami Aboudi; Editing by Alistair Lyon)
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