PAKISTANI WOMAN DIES AFTER BEING SET ON FIRE BY A FORMER LOVER

Sonia Bibi pictured on October 23. Medical staff had originally thought she would recover from her injuries
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Sonia Bibi, a 20 year old Pakistani woman died on Tuesday after a rejected suitor doused her with petrol and set her ablaze for refusing his marriage proposal.

Ms Bibi was admitted to a hospital last month, where she told the police how her former lover set her on fire because she turned down his proposal.

According to Dr. Naheed Chaudhry, the head of the hospital's burns department, about 45 to 50 percent of Ms Bibi's body had been burned in the attack.

Medical staff had thought she would recover, but her injuries became infected and this made her condition to deteriorate.

The case of Sonia Bibi is one of the many cases of violent against women in Pakistan. Each year hundreds of women are murdered in similar cases of domestic violence or on the grounds of defending family 'honor'  in Pakistan.