The pain of a wife whose husband poured gasoline on her and set her on fire, leaving her 2-year-old son severely burned

Husband poured gasoline on wife and set her on fire after an argument with her child crying in the middle of the night

(Baonghean.vn) - The child woke up in the middle of the night and cried loudly, causing the couple to argue. The husband poured gasoline and set it on fire.

Ms. Chuong, Hien's mother, takes care of her children and grandchildren at the hospital. Photo: Minh Thai

Due to the severity of her injuries, Ms. Hien was immediately transferred to the National Burn Hospital for treatment. Nguyen Van Thao, Ms. Hien's husband, after spending a day and a night taking his child to a traditional healer's house to treat his burns, then hiding, finally agreed to take his child to the hospital to treat his seriously infected wound, and surrendered to the police.

Sitting quietly in front of the hospital room where her daughter and 2-year-old granddaughter were lying, Mrs. Chuong - Ms. Hien's mother could not hide her pain. Occasionally, the old mother quickly wiped away her tears.

Sharing with us, Mrs. Chuong said: Her family received the news that her daughter had an accident in the early morning of August 9. Afterwards, without any preparation, she rushed to the Tay Bac Nghe An General Hospital to take care of her child. "When I got there and saw my child was severely burned, I was very worried on the hospital bed, not understanding what had happened. Only then did I know that my daughter had been burned by her husband with gasoline," Mrs. Chuong said, tearfully shedding tears.

Talking about her daughter's situation, Mrs. Chuong said: Thao works in construction, and Hien has just started working in a local stone company, working in shifts. The couple got married in 2009 and have 3 children together, the oldest is 10 years old, and Hieu, 2 years old, is the youngest child of the couple. After the incident, Ms. Hien suffered burns all over her body, the most severe on her back, chest, and abdomen. Hieu suffered severe burns on his neck and chest and will need long-term treatment, the cost of treatment will be very large. "I am currently having to borrow money to pay for my child's treatment," Mrs. Chuong said sadly.

Baby Hieu suffered severe burns to his neck and chest. Photo: Minh Thai

Previously, at 11pm on August 8, the couple Nguyen Van Thao (born in 1980) and Nguyen Thi Hien (born in 1983) residing in Nam Thang hamlet, Nghia Long commune had a conflict when Hien came home from work. "At around 2am on August 9, hearing the baby crying because of thirst for milk, in a moment of anger, Thao took a can of gasoline in the house and poured it on a pile of clothes in his wife's closet and lit it on fire. During the struggle, the gasoline caught on Hien and her child" - Mr. Truong Van Tam, Chief of Nghia Long commune police said.

Currently, the health of Hien and her children has gradually stabilized, but her spirit is still very panicked, her two older children are being cared for by their grandfather. "Normally, we have financial difficulties, life only depends on a few fields, now disaster has struck, the family does not know where to borrow money to treat the mother and children", Ms. Chuong - Hien's mother said in tears.