After a 24-day fight for life, a housewife from Feni succumbed to her burn injuries at Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) on Monday morning.
Farzana Akhter Rumi, 24, was admitted to the burns unit of the hospital on August 2 after her in-laws allegedly set her on fire.
Rumi was the wife of expatriate Sobir Ahammed from Pathannagar village in Feni’s Chhagalnaiya upazila. The couple has a two-year-old child.
She was admitted to Feni Sadar Hospital, from which she was shifted to DMCH’s burns unit with 80% burn injuries.
OC of Chhagalnaiya Police Station Aminul Islam said Harisa Begum has been arrested in connection to the incident.