Woman burns husband to death in Punjab

Victim and his friend left unconscious after being served intoxicant by the accused, say police

PAKPATTAN:

A woman on Friday killed her husband along with his friend after setting both of them on fire in Punjab’s Pakpattan district.

According to police, the woman initially served an intoxicant to her husband and his friend which made them unconscious.

“She then along with a male accomplice set both of them on fire,” they said, adding that the husband died in the horrific act while another man shifted to a hospital with severe burn injuries.

The police said that they had registered a case against the accused and launched a search operation to arrest them.

In a somewhat similar case on September 14, a woman was arrested from Manghopir area of Karachi for allegedly killing her husband over divorce issue.

My husband used to give me divorce threats and was involved in selling drugs,” said Bakht Begum, who is a mother of three children, while justifying the murder.

She further said that her husband brought a weapon to kill her but she saw him hiding it and later used it to kill him.

The police said that they had arrested Bakht Begum for killing her husband Usman, who was a labourer.

The woman had buried the weapon underground but it was later recovered during the probe, they added.