( CNN ) -- Shot twice . Tied up in a sack . Thrown into a canal . Yet somehow , 18-year-old Saba Maqsood lived to tell her story . Had she not , Pakistani police say , it could very well have been another honor murder . Those responsible for her horror , Maqsood told reporters Friday , are her father and brother . They shot her because they did n't approve of her marriage to a neighbor , she said . The first bullet hit her cheek , the next one her hand , after which the teenager says she `` was slightly conscious , but alive . '' `` They put me into a sack , tied up the mouth of the sack and threw it into the canal , '' Maqsood recalled . `` They thought I was dead , but I was not . '' It was in a canal in the city of Hafizabad , a city in Punjab province about 120 kilometers ( 75 miles ) northwest of Lahore , that workers at a gas station spotted the sack and the young woman inside and immediately alerted authorities , Hafizabad police officer Ali Akbar told CNN . After corroborating the basics of Maqsood 's story , including her injuries , Akbar said , `` This seems to be an honor-related crime . '' Such crimes -- which the perpetrators rationalize as necessary because the targeted women have somehow brought dishonor on a family -- are hardly unprecedented in Pakistan , a nation of about 180 million people . The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said 869 women were victims last year . One recent case that 's gotten worldwide attention is the killing last month of Farzana Parveen , a 25-year-old woman who was publicly beaten to death with bricks in Lahore because she married a man against her family 's wishes . There have been 13 arrests in her case , including her father , a brother and a cousin -- Deputy Inspector General Zulfikar Hameed said . Suspects in stoning death to go to terrorism court . The plight of Maqsood -- whose hometown in Gujranwala , another city in Punjab province -- is different from Hameed because she survived . Akbar said Friday that police have registered complaints against the 18-year-old 's brother , father , uncle and aunt . `` The accused are on the run , '' the police officer added . `` We are hopeful to apprehend them soon . '' More arrests made in stoning death of pregnant Pakistani woman . Exclusive : Sudan apostasy woman 's 'brother ' says she should repent or die .
Saba Maqsood , 18 , says her family was upset about her marrying a neighbor . Some of them shot her twice , put her in a car , then threw her into a canal to die . Maqsood was recovered ; police say they believe this was ` ` an drug - related crime '' Police are trying to apprehend several of Maqsood 's family members .