A horrific scene unfolded in Berlin when a Turkish gunman fired a volley of shots into a car, killing two women and seriously injuring the man driving it

The execution-style massacre was carried out in the busy Wedding district of the city and was witnessed by horrified shoppers and commuters. It may have been an Islamic honor killing as the car apparently contained the 24-year-old ex-wife of the gunman, who survived the ordeal. The driver, despite being shot in the head and shoulder, also survived, but the woman’s mother, 45, and younger sister, 22, who were both sitting in the back seat with her, died. Police identified the gunman as a 26-year-old Turk called Mehmet Y, who fled the scene. It’s believed that he was married to the 24-year-old woman passenger for four months. Wedding is a district that’s popular with Berlin’s Turkish community, which one neighbor described as socially difficult. Police are hunting the killer, who they warn could still be armed. Berlin suffered a spate of honor killings in 2005, when six Muslim women in the city were killed in the space of four months. They were killed by family members angry at their embracing of Western lifestyles. One, 23-year-old Hatin Surucu, was shot dead by her younger brother, Ayhan, while her five-year-old son slept in his bed. She had divorced a cousin she was forced to marry at the age of 16, ditched her headscarf and enrolled at a technical college to train to be an electrician. She began receiving death threats, which she reported to the police, but they were unable to prevent her cold-blooded murder.