A pregnant teenager was killed by her brother in south Lebanon in what police have described as an "honor killing" case, security sources said Friday.
The body of 18-year-old Baghdad Khaled al-Issa was found late Thursday in the southern border region of Wazzani, the sources told The Daily Star.
They said Issa was found in a pool of blood with several stab wounds to her head and sides.
An investigation revealed that Issa was killed by her own brother, Jihad, in a so-called "family honor" killing, a police report said.
One security source said the teen was seven months into her pregnancy.
In August 2011, lawmakers passed a proposal increasing punishment for so-called “honor crimes.”
The law calls for canceling an article in the penal code that grants a commutation of sentence for anyone who kills a wife, husband or close family member caught in the act of adultery, under the pretext that the act was driven by extreme anger.
