Pak bride, paramour arrested over murder

London: A Pakistani-origin woman and her British lover have been arrested over claims they killed her husband from an arranged marriage. Twenty-three-year-old Yasira Pervez and 45-year-old Ian Priddle are accused of flying to Pakistan and luring Khurrum Mukhtar to his death. According to a report in Britain’s Daily Mail on Monday, Pervez married Mukhtar, her Pakistani cousin in 2004. But soon after their wedding and honeymoon in Lahore she returned alone to Lancashire. According to the report, Pervez then had a passionate affair with Priddle, a man twice her age. In December 2006, the pair flew to Pakistan where Pervez asked her husband to meet her. The couple reportedly met Mukhtar at the Comfort Inn in Rawalpindi where he was found by a waiter in a pool of blood. He was rushed to hospital but succumbed to injuries.

The couple were questioned by detectives from Greater Manchester Police on suspicion of murder before they were released on bail. (PTI)

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1 killed in New Jersey shooting

New Jersey: A gunman has shot a driver at a traffic light and killed a pedestrian, and the same man may be responsible for shooting a police sergeant in his patrol car, authorities said.

The three shootings took place within minutes in the same general area of Irvington, in northern New Jersey, around 3 am (local time) on Sunday, said Mr Paul Loriquet, Essex County prosecutor’s office spokesman. The Police later accused Shaquan Johnson, 27, of Newark of shooting the police officer. (AP)

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Spanish fishing boat hijacked

Madrid: Pirates have hijacked a Spanish fishing boat with a crew of 26 off the coast of Somalia, the government said on Monday. The foreign ministry said there were no reports of injuries in the seizure of the Playa de Bakio on Sunday in Somali waters.

Spanish media reports said the pirates are demanding money and fired a grenade launcher at the fishing boat before boarding it.

Spanish National Radio said it had contacted the skipper early Monday and he said the crew members are fine. (AP)