A JUNIOR doctor was reportedly beheaded by her boyfriend after she refused to marry him in Kazakhstan. Teacher Shyngys Bekenov proposed to his girlfriend Nazerke Bekzhanova, 21, who had recently graduated from a medical university. She refused because her parents did not approve of him, it is believed.

“Furious” over her rejection, the 26-year-old allegedly severed her head as they sat in his car. The man then tried but failed to end his own life by stabbing himself in the abdomen after writing a suicide note asking that they should be buried together, according to police.

Bekenov has been detained in hospital in a “grave but stable” condition with knife wounds. He faces a charge of murder with a minimum sentence of 15 years. His note claimed he had beheaded the woman after she told him she would marry him, it was reported.

The woman’s beheaded body was found in the car near a dam on the edge of Tasboget village, 5 miles (8 km) from Kyzylorda city. A neighbor of the victim said: “The parents of the young woman were against this marriage. But why did he kill her? We are in shock. We did not expect anything like this.”

The couple had been seen talking animatedly several hours before her body was found. She had just started her first job at a medical center after graduating from the medical institute in Aktobe.

He is a high-flying young teacher who had been honored by the authorities. (SD-Agencies)