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The village of Jabel Mukaber, nearby Jerusalem, where the Shakirat sisters were murdered in what appears to be an 'honor killing'.
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05/03
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| By israelinsider staff and partners May 4, 2005 |
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Jerusalem police arrested the parents of the Shakirat sisters -- Amani, 20, and Rodina, 27 -- who were strangled to death in their home in the village of Jabel Mukaber near Jerusalem on Monday.
Police also arrested the wife of Maher Shakirat, the brother of the murdered girls, who is the prime suspect in the crime.
The three are suspected of being accomplices to the murder, and the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court is considering a request to extend their remand.
Maher Shakirat -- who is still at large -- is also suspected of seriously injuring a third sister, Leila, 24.
The girls' father found the bodies and hurried to report the murder to the local police station around 5:15 p.m. on Monday. Police units that arrived at the scene discovered the bodies of two of the sisters with strangulation marks. An ambulance crew was called and determined their deaths.
Meanwhile, relatives summoned another ambulance to the Haas promenade for the third sister, who they said had swallowed acid in a suicide attempt. A Magen David Adom team treated her and took her to Shaarei Tzedek Hospital.
"We were notified that a woman was hurt after trying to commit suicide by drinking acid," said MDA's Zohar Galai. "She was removed from Jabel Mukaber by private car, and we reached her at the Armon Hanatziv promenade. She was brought to us by two people, suffering from oral burns but also had strangulation marks on her neck. She was semi-conscious. We anesthetized and intubated her."
The relatives did not tell the ambulance crew about the strangulation marks and said nothing about the two sisters who had been murdered.
Police couldn't say whether the murdered sisters, one of them married with two children, had also swallowed acid, or were strangled to death.
Their bodies were sent for examination to the Institute of Forensic Medicine at Abu Kabir.
Police officials said that the Shakirat family was not previously known to the police, and that there had been no advance warning about any family members intending to murder the sisters.
Nonetheless, investigators suspect that the murders had been a so-called honor killing, with the prime suspect being the missing brother.
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