Pakistani police stand around the bodies of a woman and her alleged boyfriend who were hanged to death by the woman’s father, brother and husband in the village of Chak.

The woman and the man were killed on Thursday with the police placing the blame on her husband, brother and father.

The murders occurred in the village of Chak which is northeast of the central city of Multan in Pakistan.

Chief of the local police station, Sardar Afzal, told AFP: “A woman and her alleged boyfriend were hanged to death by the woman’s father, brother and husband after the woman was caught on a date with her boyfriend in the backyard of her house.”

The victims were identified as Khalida Bibi, in her late 20s, and Mukhtiar Muhammad, believed to be about 19.

Afzal also revealed that all the suspects have been arrested and have confessed to their crimes, adding that the affair had been brought to the attention of her father and brother by the victim’s husband.

Officials from the local police station confirmed the incident.

“They were beaten up before being strung up in the tree and hanged,” another official said.

Meanwhile in Israel, a man from an Arab village in the north of the country has been indicted for fatally shooting his mother in a case of so-called “honour killing.”

Spokeswoman Luba Samri says the 23-year-old man, a member of Israel’s Arab minority, shot his 46-year-old mother six times at close range in July.

Samri said on Thursday that the son suspected “his mother was behaving contrary to the accepted norms in their society.”

Arab women in conservative Muslim communities have been murdered in the past by their relatives for conduct perceived as besmirching their family’s honour.

In many Muslim communities across the Middle East sex out of wedlock or even just dating is seen as a stain on the family reputation that can only be cleansed with blood.