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Afghan girl's throat slit over refusal to wed

Two men have been arrested for slitting the throat of a 15-year-old Afghan girl after her family refused a marriage proposal, police said Thursday.

Afghan girls walk home from school in the province of Kunduz in March 2012. Two men have been arrested for slitting the throat of a 15-year-old Afghan girl in Kunduz after her family refused a marriage proposal, police said Thursday.

The girl was carrying water from a river to her village home in northern Kunduz province on Wednesday when she was murdered, police spokesman Sayed Sarwar Hussaini told AFP.

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