DHAKA: A young couple in Pakistan were tied up and had their throats slit with scythes after they married for love.

Police said Saturday, reports The Straits Times.

The 17-year-old girl and 31-year-old man married on June 18 without the consent of their families in eastern Pakistan’s Punjabi village of Satrah, police said.

The girl’s mother and father lured the couple home late on Thursday with the promise that their marriage would receive a family blessing, said local police official Rana Zashid.

‘When the couple reached there, they tied them with ropes,’ he said.

BDST: 1949 HRS, JUNE 28, 2014