Indian woman dies in Kathmandu, husband detained

An Indian woman died in mysterious circumstances in her apartment in the Nepalese capital today, prompting police to take her husband into custody.

Thirty-year-old Chanda Devi was declared dead when her husband Mahesh Prasad Baniya brought her to Bir Hospital, officials said.

Chanda, a resident of Motihari in Bihar, was staying in a rented apartment at Teku on the outskirts of Kathmandu.

Baniya was taken into custody and interrogated, police said. No further details were immediately available.