Man sets wife on fire during drinking session


KOTA KINABALU: A woman died after her husband allegedly set her on fire during an argument while they were drinking local wine at their house in Sabah’s interior Sook, about 150km from the state capital.

The 41-year-old woman succumbed at the Keningau district hospital on Sunday to the burns she sustained, 16 hours after the incident at their house in Kampung Tinagalan on Saturday night.

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