KARACHI: A young woman was axed to death allegedly by her maternal grandfather in Marfani Goth within the remit of the Awami Colony police station on Saturday evening, police said.

Korangi-SSP Tauheed Rehman Memon said that Shahzadi, 20, was killed by her grandfather Mohammed Sharif inside their home near Bagh-iKorangi.

The Awami Colony police claimed to have arrested the suspect and recovered the axe.

He informed the police that she had married on her own free will in Jamshoro a year ago. The suspect brought her back home, where he killed her.

The SSP said that the police were treating it as a case of killing in the name of so-called honour.

The body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for a postmortem examination.

Earlier this week, a free-will couple were shot dead in the Manghopir area in the name of socalled honour. The police had said that relatives of Saira Lugman had allegedly killed her and her husband, Adil, in the Amir Mohammad Goth home. The family of the de ceased man had refused to lodge an FIR of the murder and the police had registered a murder case on behalf of the state.

Meanwhile, a widow seeking a third marriage was shot dead allegedly by her brother in Bahadurabad late on Friday night.

SSP-East Dr Farrukh Raza said suspect Munir Shaikh shot dead his 45-year-old sister Waheeda over a domestic dispute inside their home in Dhoraji Colony and fled.

Area SHO Mohammed Naeem Rajput said that the victim was a widow and she had eight children from her previous two husbands. She wanted a third marriage, which was being opposed by the family.