Jordan- Brother kills divorced sister for delivering child out of wedlock 

(MENAFN - Jordan Times) Police on Wednesday were questioning a man who reportedly killed his divorced sister in Jerash in a so-called honour murder earlier in the day.

The suspect, who was not identified by officials, reportedly stabbed his sister then threw her in the street and ran over her with his vehicle until he made sure she was dead.

"The suspect then headed to the nearest police station and turned himself in to the police and informed them that he had murdered his sister to cleanse his family's honour," a senior judicial source told The Jordan Times.

The suspect claimed that he had murdered his sister after learning that she had delivered a child out of wedlock, according to the source.

The victim was the third woman in Jordan to be murdered in the name of "family honour" this week and the second in less than 48 hours.

On Monday, a 28-year-old man in Zarqa reportedly murdered his divorced sister with a brick and a knife at their home in Zarqa for reasons related to family honour.

On July 18, a 60-year-old man allegedly stabbed his 25-year-old divorced daughter seven times at his home in an Amman suburb, claiming family honour as a motive because she had delivered a baby girl out of wedlock.

Wednesday's victim was the seventh woman to be murdered in the Kingdom for reasons related to family honour this year.

A three-year-old child was also murdered recently, reportedly by her mother, who delivered her out of wedlock and decided to murder her because the family to whom she had given her daughter did not want her.

The woman reportedly killed the child out of fear of a scandal.