An Egyptian man has set fire to his wife in the Rod El Farag district of Cairo because she didn’t bear him a child in three years. According to the Egyptian daily newspaper Al-Wafd, Muhammad tied his wife Aya up, poured a flammable substance over her then set her on fire. He left her in their flat and waited on the balcony of his parent’s home, which was in the same building, and did not call the emergency services. After neighbours called the police and the ambulance they arrived to find she had already suffered severe burns on 70 per cent of her body and damage to one of her lungs. She did not survive the attack. Neighbours have said Mohamed and his mother were abusing her throughout their marriage because he believed she was infertile. He has been arrested and referred to the Public Prosecution. In Egypt, 1.5 million women experience domestic abuse every year, or just above 4,000 a day.