Mom ‘shoots dead pregnant daughter’

A Turkish mother, 36, shot dead her daughter, 17, after finding out that she was three months pregnant, media reports said on Saturday.

The mother, named as Emine A., found out that her daughter Meryem A. was pregnant during a visit to neighbours in the Selcuk district of the southern city of Nigde, the daily reported. She then went back home to find a gun and returned to shoot her daughter — who worked as a cashier in a market — five times, it said. —