Incident Reports

Hubby‚ in-laws beat woman to death

2015-04-19

Bagmati, Dolakha, Gaurishankar

A woman from Bhimeshwor municipality-13 of Dolakha has died after she was beaten severely by her husband, father-in-law and mother-in-law. Laxmi Tamang (31) succumbed to injury this morning, said the District Police office. The police investigation said her husband Hari Tamang, mother-in-law Suntali Lama, and father-in-law Karsang Tamang beat Laxmi mercilessly forcing her to be admitted at a local hospital three days ago. Later, she was referred to Bir Hospital, Kathmandu, where she breathed her last this morning. Police Inspector from District Police Office, Jivan Lama, said the husband and in-laws had attacked her over a minor family dispute. She has a six-year-old son. According to the locals, there was none in her family to support and neither anyone from her mother's home to rescue on time, her treatment was delayed.

Details and Impacts
Violent / Non-violent Violent
Onesided / Twosided Onesided
Collective / Interpersonal Interpersonal
Primary Form Murder/attempted Murder
Weapons None
Primary Cause Domestic violence
Actor 1 - Number of people 3
Actor 1 - Affiliations Family/relative
Actor 1 - Youth noyouth
Actor 2 - Number of people 1
Actor 2 - Affiliation (Target) Family/relative
Actor 2 - Youth noyouth
Total Killed 1
Female Killed 1
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