Pakistan bride accidentally poisons 13 family members in failed bid to kill husband
A Pakistani woman has been arrested after a plot to murder her husband with a
poisoned glass of milk led to the death of 13 family members.
The woman’s mother-in-law used
the tainted milk to make lassi, according to police, after her husband refused
the glass. A total of 27 people, including several children, suffered poisoning
from the yoghurt-based drink.
Police in Muzaffargarh, a city in
south Punjab, say that Asiya concocted the plot to “avenge” being married
against her wishes two months ago.
After an earlier attempt to flee
to her parent’s home was foiled, she was provided with poison by her alleged
lover, said a Muzaffargarh district police officer, Nazim Ali.
But the plot went awry when
Amjad, Asiya’s husband, did not drink the glass of milk she handed to him, Mr
Ali said. Instead, her mother-in-law poured the poisoned substance into a vat
kept by the family, and drew from it the next day to make lassi and butter.
Initially, it was claimed that a
lizard had fallen into the milk, poisoning it. But according to police, Asiya
confessed her role while in custody.
Although Pakistan recently
strengthened laws designed to prevent child marriage and forced conversion,
there is little legal remedy for women who reject a partner chosen for them by
their family.
Pakistan accounted for the
highest number of forced marriages reported to the UK’s Forced Marriage Unit in
2016. Some 612 of the 1400 cases involved women from the south Asian country
brought over to Britain.
Cases of poisoning are common in
Punjab, where last month a newly-married couple were poisoned for unknown
reasons by the family of the bride.
Source: The Telegraph
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