A married teenage girl who was six months pregnant has been found dead in northern Baghlan province with police suspecting it may have been a suicide, Baghlan police told TOLOnews.
The 15-year-old girl, Gul Bibi, was found dead Saturday on a hill in the area of central Baghlan called Chahar Shanba Tapa.
Provincial police commander Shirzad said that the cause of her death is still being investigated although they suspect it was a suicide.
However, police have detained Gul Bibi's husband who has denied any wrongdoing. He claims Gul Bibi ate mouse poison.
Meanwhile, her father claims that she was killed by her husband, perhaps after he took a second wife, and that other family members were involved in her murder.
He said she was hanged on Friday and was later found with the help of the Baghlan Women's Affairs Department. They took her to hospital but it was too late.
"Police arrested her husband, but her father-in-law is still free. He told me, "We will kill your remaining children and I don't care where and to whom you go," Gul Bibi's father told TOLOnews.
"I am asking the government and President Karzai that, for God's sake, if we are your citizens then give us justice."
Gul Bibi was married two years ago to a resident of Old Baghlan called Anwar, son of Rangin Khan, who physically abused her throughout those two years, according to her father.
Doctors who conducted the post-mortem on Gul Bibi said the cause of her death is still not clear.
It comes a week after two teenage girls were killed in neighbouring Kunduz province.
A 16-year-old girl, Nasrin, was found shot dead at her home in the capital of northeastern Kunduz province two days after another 14-year-old girl, Giseena, had her throat slit apparently for her father's refusal to give her in marriage.
Nasrin's death is also being treated as a suicide, police said last week.