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Kenya: Wife set ablaze for reading lover’s SMS

A nurse attending to 27 year old Dorcas Awinja at her hospital bed at Nairobi Women's Hospital, Nakuru branch on January 19,2016 where she is recuperating after being burned by her husband at home in Ipali village, Luanda sub-county in Vihiga County following a love affair text message. [PHOTO:KIPSANG JOSEPH]

 

Lying on the hospital bed, Dorcas Awinja yells in pain. The 27-year-old woman says she sustained burns after her husband doused paraffin on her and set her on fire over a love text message on his phone.

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