A 23-year-old woman from Pakistan, believed to be five months pregnant, has been found with severed burns in the garden of a house in Cloudsdale Avenue, West Bowling, Bradford, UK and pronounced dead a short time later. It was understood she had been on fire and that the fire was confined to her. According to neighbors, she came from Pakistan less than or around a year ago and lived at the address with her mother-in-law and two sisters-in-law, and has not been seen much. Investigations are continuing.1
The practice of bride burning is found in the Indian sub-continent countries such as Pakistan, India and Bangladesh, where the husband or his family burn unwanted wives to death and make excuses such as that an exploding stove caused the fire.2
Sources: 1. Telegraph & Argus (A Bradford newspaper), 2. Wikipedia.org
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