Story highlights Samia Shahid's ex-husband has confessed to having strangled her to deathHer widower believes she was murdered in a so-called "honor killing"(CNN) A British woman murdered in a suspected "honor killing" incident in Pakistan was raped before her death, Pakistani police say. Samia Shahid, from Bradford, England, was visiting family in the Jhelum district in Pakistan's northern Punjab province in July when she was killed. Her relatives initially told local police she had a heart attack, but a post-mortem showed she had been strangled, Punjab police spokeswoman Nabeela Ghazanfar told CNN. Shahid's former husband, Chaudhry Muhammad Shakeel, was held on suspicion of murder, and confessed last month to having strangled her to death with her scarf, Ghazanfar said. Shakeel was also Shahid's first cousin.

Source: CNN September 03, 2016 12:11 UTC