PESHAWAR: Two teenage girls were murdered by their father in the name of honour here on Saturday night.

A police official said the complainant, Amjad Ali, had lodged an FIR against his father Abdul Ghani stating that he had gunned down his daughters Shamim Bibi, 18 and Noreen Bibi, 14 to save the family’s “honour” in Peshawar’s Achar Kalay area.

“Ghani suspected that the two girls were having an affair,” the police official said.

He said that a few days ago, Noreen had left the house and had returned after three days. Around midnight on Saturday, the girls were trying to escape from the house when Ghani woke up and opened fire on them. He then fled the scene.

Around 24 women have been killed in the province in the first eight months of this year as compared to 44 such murders in 2016.