Lovelorn man burns woman for unrequited love
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A female worker from northern Nghe An Province was set on fire Wednesday afternoon by a man who fell in love with her but failed to win her heart.
Loud shouts and high columns of smoke from a guest house in Nghi Khanh Commune, Nghi Loc District drew people to a scene where Nguyen Thi Thu Hien, 21, was trying to extinguish the fire covering all her body with a blanket.
Nguyen Manh Dong, 26, who had torched the woman with petrol moments ago was calmly standing and watching the flame.
Hien's neighbors broke the door, held Dong back, and took her to hospital. She got large-scale burns on her face, chest, abdomen, and legs so the neighbors sent her to Hanoi for treatment right afterwards.
Dong told police later that he just met Hien after getting back to Nghe An for Tet holiday from Ho Chi Minh City and then expressed his love for her within a short time.
Hien turned him down, saying the two needed longer time to know more about each other.
Buying a bottle of petrol and a box of matches, the man then came to Hien’s place to ask why she did not love him.
Finding no reasonable answer, he locked the woman in the room and spread the petrol on her body. After failing to set fire on her in his first attempt, Dong pushed her to the room’s corner and burned the poor woman.
The man is now facing charges of murder.
