Summary:
NOIDA: Four days after she tested positive for Covid-19, a 52-year-old woman in home isolation immolated herself after dousing herself with kerosene early on Thursday morning, according to police.
She suffered around 70% burns.
The woman had been upset ever since her report came, her family said, and had had little interaction with her husband and two children on Wednesday.
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NOIDA: Four days after she tested positive for Covid-19, a 52-year-old woman in home isolation immolated herself after dousing herself with kerosene early on Thursday morning, according to police.
She suffered around 70% burns.
The woman had been upset ever since her report came, her family said, and had had little interaction with her husband and two children on Wednesday.
Police said the woman, identified as Archana, was the wife of retired Indian Air Force officer Jaiprakash Sharma.
They have a son and a daughter, both in their twenties.
The family lives in Raj Enclave of Badalpur in Greater Noida.
According to cops, the incident took place around 4am.
Archana, they said, immolated herself in the room she had isolated herself while her family members were asleep.