Hengana News Agency reported that Hana Rekan, a 16-year-old teenager living in Kermanshah, was killed by her father in the early hours of Saturday, the seventh of Shahrivar.

According to information published by Hengana, the teenager was targeted by a gunshot while she was asleep and died.

A source familiar with Hana Rekan’s family told Hengana: “The patriarchal and traditional way of thinking was the reason behind the father of this 16-year-old teenager’s act of murdering her.”

Hengana has not published any further information about the motive for the killing or the father’s situation.

According to this report, Hana Rekan, the daughter of Mojtaba and a resident of the Davlatabad neighborhood in Kermanshah, was laid to rest on Sunday, the eighth of Shahrivar, in the cemetery of the village of Nilaureh in the Kuzran area of Kermanshah Province.