Pakistani bride kills 17 people with poison milk in effort to escape arranged marriage.

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According to Pakistani authorities, the 21-year-old woman tried to slip poison into her new husband’s milk and inadvertently killed 17 of his family members in the process.

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Last week, Tajak said, Bibi mixed the poison in milk and gave it to her husband, but he refused to drink it. At some point after — and it’s not exactly clear how — Bibi’s mother-in-law used the tainted milk to make lassi, a yogurt-based drink popular in South Asia. When she served it to 27 members of her extended family, all of them lost consciousness and were hospitalized.

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Bibi, who is charged with murder, appeared in court Tuesday in the northeastern city of Muzaffargarh, where she told reporters that her parents had forced her in September to marry a relative

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Bibi told reporters that she had in fact targeted her husband and regretted that others had died, according to the AP.

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