Police in Queensland have charged two Afghan men with murder following the death of a 23-year-old woman in Springfield Lakes, west of Brisbane, Australia, late Friday evening, reports Sky News. The men were the husband and brother-in-law to the woman who was killed.

Khalilullah and Masihullah Habibi, were charged with murder in the case, according to ABC Australia, and emergency crews responded around 8 pm to reports that a woman had collapsed at a residence. When officers arrived, they found the woman, originally from Afghanistan, unconscious and not breathing. Despite efforts by first responders to revive her, she was pronounced dead at the scene.

Authorities established a crime scene and took the two men into custody. Queensland Police said Khalilullah and Masihullah, one of whom is the woman's husband, the woman’s 26-year-old husband—both Afghan nationals—were arrested at the home and later charged with one count each of domestic violence murder.

Detective Inspector Michael Manago said the death occurred while two young children, ages three and four, were present inside the home. "It’s a tragic death," Manago said, noting that investigators are pursuing multiple leads to determine what happened the night prior.

The two men were initially cooperative and spoke with detectives throughout Saturday. They are scheduled to appear in Ipswich Magistrates Court on Monday. Online, some commenters raised the possibility that the case may be linked to so-called "honour killings."

“Honour killings in Australia, f*cking hell. Do you feel enriched yet?” one user wrote on X.

An honour killing is a form of homicide, typically targeting women, that occurs when a family member believes the victim has brought shame or dishonor upon the family. the act is widely condemned by international bodies and human rights groups.

In a separate but similar case, members of a family in Adelaide were sentenced over the stabbing of a young woman who was attacked for dating someone outside her religion, reports the Australian Broadcast Company.

The 21-year-old victim, whose identity remains unknown, was stabbed multiple times in the abdomen by her father in the parking lot of Sefton Plaza Shopping Centre in November 2021. The woman sustained serious internal injuries from the attack.

Her parents and older brother were sentenced this week for their roles in the incident. According to court findings, the victim’s family—of traditional Pashtun Muslim background—disapproved of her relationship with a Christian man.

They coordinated efforts to find her prior to the assault. In court, the stabbing was described as an “attempted honour killing.”

Justice Sandi McDonald, delivering the sentence in the Supreme Court on Monday, noted that the victim’s mother and sister restrained her during the attack. After the stabbing, her eldest brother drove her back to the family’s home and placed her in the shower while she was bleeding heavily.

“It is a particularly egregious feature of this offending that having seen [the victim] repeatedly stabbed by a knife, neither her brother, her sister nor her mother did anything to assist her, protect her or comfort her,” McDonald said.

“Each family member made their own decision to be part of the plan to [make the victim] return home,” she added. “To [the victim], these were not just criminal offences but the deepest form of betrayal by almost every one of her close family members.”

Originally, the father, mother, brother, sister, and brother-in-law were all charged with serious crimes, including attempted murder. The father later pleaded guilty to an aggravated charge of causing serious harm with intent. The other four entered guilty pleas to charges including aggravated causing harm with intent and false imprisonment.