Bangladesh is to charge 16 people over the murder of a teenager burned to death last month – with each of them now facing the death penalty.

Nusrat Jahan, 18, died after a gang of girls allegedly poured kerosene over her and set her on fire on the roof of her school after she refused to withdraw a sexual harassment complaint against the head teacher.

The head of the Police Bureau of Investigation said the men and women arrested in connection with her murder would all be charged on Wednesday, with prosecutors seeking the death penalty for all 16.

“We will be submitting the charge sheet on Wednesday,” Banaj Kumar Majumdar, told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

According to Nusrat, she said she was called into her headmaster’s office where she claimed he repeatedly touched her in an inappropriate manner.

It’s said she was filmed by an officer on his phone as she was describing the molestation.