On Monday evening, police made public a 45-year-old man of ward 14 of Birgunj Metropolitan City who was arrested on the charge of killing his 28-year-old second wife.

According to Deputy Superintendent of Police Kumar Bikram Thapa of the district police office, the woman was seriously injured after being beaten and stabbed by her husband and other family members on October 21.

The woman died in the course of treatment at Birgunj Health Care Hospital on October 22.

Two family members have been arrested, and a search for other absconding family members is going on, said Thapa.