A married couple were shot dead in Pakistan in what is suspected to be an honour killing.
Glasgow businessman Saif Rehman and his wife Uzma Naurin, from New York, were reportedly targeted in Gujarat on November 1.
According to reports, their car was ambushed by four men in board daylight and Mr Rehman was murdered, before his wife was taken away by the group.
Her body was found hour later, hidden in bushes nearby.
Said Ali, a friend from Cumberland in North Lanarkshire, told the BBC that the couple were in Pakistan for a family wedding and were returning from a shopping trip when they were attacked.
He said: “They were going back home and basically, all of a sudden, the driver just stopped the car. Four people were in a different car which stopped in front of them.
“They pulled Saif and his sister and his wife out of the car and as soon as he was pulled out of the car, they shot him without saying anything.”
Mr Ali added: “Five minutes up the road they basically killed her (Uzma Naurin) as well. She wasn’t found until quite a bit of time later. Probably about three or four hours later she was found as they had basically put her in the shrubs somewhere, just on the side of the road.”
The driver and two other passengers, Mr Rehman’s sister and her two year old daughter, were left unharmed.
Detectives told reporters that they wanted to speak to the parents of Mrs Naurin amid allegations of a family feud prior to the incident. Shakir Rehman, brother of Saif told reporters that some members of Mrs Naurin’s family were upset that she and her husband for married outside of Pakistan in the UK.
He also said her father was absent from the wedding the couple attended before the incident.
