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DES MOINES, Iowa -- Des Moines police have arrested a woman accused of setting a man on fire.

Forty-seven-year-old Amy Thornton is facing charges of attempted murder and willful injury.

The Des Moines Register reports it happened Saturday at a home in the 1900 block of East Walnut Street.

Police found a man with burns and he claimed it was Thornton who lit him on fire. The two were apparently engaged.

Thornton is being held in the Polk County Jail on a $110,000 bond.

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