A 34-year-old woman was arrested after pouring boiling water on her husband’s scrotum while he was asleep after discovering that he was cheating on her.

The woman, who lives in the Karpas peninsula village of Leonarisso, had been married to her 35-year-old husband for 12 years, and the couple have three children.

However, after discovering that he had had an affair, she boiled water and poured it on his scrotum.

The man was taken first to the north’s Famagusta state hospital, before being transferred to northern Nicosia’s Dr Burhan Nalbantoglu hospital. Doctors have confirmed that his life is not in danger.

The woman remains in custody.