HARIPUR, Aug 15: A married woman, who suffered burn injuries on Sunday, has died according to Hattar police station. Her father and husband claimed that she had committed suicide. Hattar police, acting on an intelligence report, raided the house of Mohammad Arif in Hattar village and found that the family was trying to bury the body of Ms Irshad. The family said she had committed suicide.

The police, however, took the body to the Haripur district headquarters hospital for autopsy. Later, father of the victim and her husband submitted a written statement before the duty magistrate and the police that the woman, who had two small children, was short-tempered and on the day of the incident she locked herself in a room after exchange of some hot words with her husband.

She doused her body with kerosene and set herself on fire. She suffered 90 per cent burns and died on the way to hospital.

The family later buried the woman after obtaining exemption of post-mortem from the duty magistrate. It was reported that the victim was the second wife of Mohammad Arif.