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India-Pakistan
Housemaid dies after being set on fire: police
2017-08-10
[DAWN] A housemaid was killed by her employers in Punjab
1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots....

after being set on fire for failing to repay a debt, police said Wednesday.

The incident occurred on Sunday in Nankana Sahib district.

"Fouzia Bibi, the victim and her husband were working at the house of a local landlord for the last five months and they had taken Rs25,000 in advance from them," local police official Jaffar Hussain told AFP.

The police officer said the couple told the landlords -- a father and son -- that they planned to quit their jobs when the employers inquired about the advance.

"The couple had nothing to give back so the landlords beat the husband and locked him in a room and sprinkled petrol over the woman and set her ablaze," he added.

The victim was later rushed to a hospital in Faisalabad
...formerly known as Lyallpur, the third largest metropolis in Pakistain, the second largest in Punjab after Lahore. It is named after some Arab because the Paks didn't have anybody notable of their own to name it after...
where she died.
Posted by:Fred

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