An 84-year-old widow was seriously injured after her son-in-law doused her with gasoline and set her on fire in her home in Barangay Bolinawan, Carcar City, southern Cebu.
Lolita Lico-an was taken to the Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City due to severe burns in her head and body.
The suspect, Ignacio Brade Tribunalo, 55, was arrested after the incident on Sunday afternoon, Jan. 5.Police Staff Sgt. Japeth Saavedra of the Carcar City Police Station said Tribunalo arrived in Lico-an's home looking for his wife, Suzette, the victim's daughter. Police said Tribunalo got irked when Lico-an told him that she did not know her daughter’s whereabouts.
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