A five-month pregnant Lebanese woman with full body burns is fighting a ‘bleak’ battle for survival after her husband set fire to her because she refused to have an abortion.

Hana Mohammed Khodor, 21, was rushed to a hospital in Tripoli in critical condition after her husband, identified as ‘AA’, set her ablaze with a gas canister.

A doctor said that they had to operate to remove the unborn baby after it died and the mother’s chances of survival are ‘very bleak.’

The horrific attack is alleged to have started with ‘AA’ viciously beating his young pregnant wife when she told him she wanted to keep their baby, due to be born in December.

The argument stemmed from the financial burden that the child would put on the family, with the couple reportedly coming from poor upbringings in the north of the country.