died after setting herself on fire in
protest against a police report that led
to the release of a key suspect, a doctor
and her brother said.
College student Amina Bibi died on
Friday after dousing herself with petrol
and setting it alight on Thursday outside
a police station near Muzaffargarh, in
Punjab.
"She was under our treatment but she
succumbed to her wounds on Friday
morning," Muhammad Usman, a local
doctor, said, according to Reuters news
agency.
The police decision to release the main
suspect had been too much for Bibi to
handle, her brother said.
"She was already depressed after going
through the trauma, but after the
release of the accused, she lost all hope
of getting justice and set herself on fire,"
Ghulam Shabir said.
Bibi was raped by five men as she
walked home from her college on
January 5, he added.
"I was with her when five men
kidnapped her at gunpoint and took her
away," he said. "I couldn't do anything
because they were armed."
Police said they would revisit the case
following the death.
"It seems the case had not been
properly investigated," said senior police
office Chaudhry Asghar. "We have
suspended the investigation officer,
Rana Zulfiqar, and placed him in
detention."
Rape and other forms of sexual assault
and domestic violence are widespread
in Pakistan, but such public acts of
desperation by abused women are rare.
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