A man has killed his wife in Surkal village in western Iran’s Kermanshah province. The identity of the 43-year-old victim is not yet known.

“The killer is a 48-year-old man who had fled after the murder”, the Iranian Rokna News agency quoted the Kermanshah police chief as saying.

The police chief added that after the killer was arrested by the police, he confessed to killing his wife due to a “family dispute” and was referred to the judiciary for legal action, the agency reported.