Mary Fakhoury burned to death, husband accused

On the evening of June 27, Mary Fakhoury, 27, rushed out of her house engulfed in fire and screaming for help. She ran naked in the street close to the southern port of Tyre shouting ‘alcohol, cigarette’. In the meantime her neighbor who hurried for her rescue said she saw the husband dashing in and out of the house and pleading ‘wrap her in a bed sheet’ while he was preoccupied in put out the fire in the sofa leaving his wife to her fate. Immediately, Mary was rushed to Jabal Amel Hospital and from there to Geitawi as she was suffering from severe burns all over her body. She stayed there for nearly five days before she passed away last Thursday. Her husband took her dead body without informing her family who had arrived the next day, Friday, to find their daughter dead and her body hijacked by the suspect who declared that he will bury her in his hometown in the district of Byblos. This angered her family who wanted Mary to be buried in Tyre. In this respect, the family’s attorney Samar Traboulsi said the parties agreed to bury her in Tyre after the intervention of the Prosecutor in the South Judge Rahif Ramadan. The death incident remains a mystery with no clear evidence that the perpetrator is the husband. Meanwhile, sources indicated that victim’s family was planning to sue the husband for murder. (Al Akhbar, 4 July 2015)