Azeri woman dies in hospital after self-immolation

A woman has died in Azerbaijan after an act of self-immolation.

Police in Baku said that 24-year-old Malaka Bayramli passed away in hospital.

Bayramli set herself alight in Baku on January 30.

Police say she committed the act after being rejected by her lover, a serviceman at the Ministry of National Security Guard. The woman's family claimed that she had been raped by the man.  

It was the fourth self-immolation in Azerbaijan in a month.

Last week, a veteran of the 1990s Karabakh war set himself on fire in central Barda district to protest the actions of local authorities. The man remains in hospital. 

In another instance, a man set himself on fire earlier this month in protest against corruption in central Yevlax district.

The death of a Karabakh war veteran who self-immolated in late December in Baku caused a public outcry.

ANN.Az