Pakistan – A young Pakistani woman was recovering in
hospital Friday after she was burned over nearly half her body by a man she had
refused to marry, police said.
Sonia Bibi, 20, told police from her hospital bed that her
former lover Latif Ahmed sprinkled her with petrol and set her alight after she
turned down his proposal.
- A doctor in Multan’s main Nishtar hospital confirmed to AFP that 45 to 50 percent of Bibi’s body had been burnt in the attack, but said she was out of danger.
- The incident took place in a remote village of Multan district in central Punjab province, and police have arrested the 24-year-old Ahmed, local police official Jamshid Hayat told AFP.
- “Police arrested the man after recording the statement of Sonia Bibi in the presence of her parents,” Hayat said.
- “The girl told us that she was in love with Latif, whom she accused of dousing her in gasoline and setting her alight,” Hayat said.
Police have launched a probe, he said, but preliminary
investigations suggested Latif had set Bibi on fire “after she refused to marry
him”.
Mukhtar Cheema, another police official in Multan confirmed
the incident, saying that Bibi had told police she had turned Ahmed down as she
was no longer in love with him.
Source:– AFP
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