In Pakistan, Couple allegedly kill daughter with acid

Pakistani police officers and officials pray next to the bodies of policemen who were killed by militants, during their funeral in Peshawar, Pakistan, Monday, Oct. 15, 2012. A Pakistani official says over 100 militants attacked a police station in the small town of Matni, near Peshawar, late on Sunday night, killing several policemen and beheading two of them. AP

MUZAFFARABAD, Pakistan—Pakistani officials say police have arrested a couple for allegedly killing their 15-year-old daughter by throwing acid on her because she supposedly had an affair with a boy.

Local government official Masood-ur-Rehman says the couple was arrested Tuesday in Pakistan-administered Kashmir.

Police officer Imtiaz Ali says the parents confessed to killing the girl a day earlier because they believed she had sullied the family’s honor.

He said Friday that an autopsy confirmed that the girl died of acid burns.

Honor killings are widespread in Pakistan, where scores of women are murdered every year for marriages or relationships not approved by their families.