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| Subject: Sick culture: Pakistan girl burned alive for rejecting marriage proposal Sun Jun 29, 2014 8:21 pm | |
| A teenage girl died in Pakistan after being doused in petrol and set alight by a man who wanted to marry her but whose proposal had been rejected, police said Sunday.
It was the second brutal killing in Pakistan's Punjab province within days, after a 17-year-old girl and her husband were murdered by a group of relatives for marrying against their wishes.
The latest incident took place Saturday in a village which is part of Toba Tek Singh town.
Sidra Shaukat, 18, was at home without her parents when 22-year-old Fayyaz Aslam entered her house, doused her with petrol and set her alight, Mohammad Akram, a police official told AFP.
"She was taken to a local hospital which referred her to the main hospital but she died before reaching there," Akram said.
Aslam has been arrested and a case registered against him.
"The boy loved her and had also sent a proposal to marry her, but that was rejected by her family," Akram said.
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