Kabul , Afghanistan ( CNN ) The Afghan woman is dragged onto a roof and hit with a stick , as a horde of angry , screaming men swarm around her . At one point , video shows her standing with her face covered in blood . She is pushed and falls over , and her beating continues with feet , with rocks , with boards . Then , in the last part of the video , her body is engulfed in flames -- though it 's not known whether , by that point , she was already dead . This horrific scene played out in Kabul on Thursday . It 's already had ripple effects , including a United Nations statement on Friday condemning what it called `` the brutal killing and burning of a 27-year-old mentally ill woman . '' That corresponds with what the woman 's parents told CNN affiliate Tolo News , saying their daughter suffered from mental health problems for the last 16 years . It 's not known whether her attackers knew this , or that it would have mattered . What motivated the mob , according to witnesses , was a belief that the targeted woman had burned the Quran . CNN has n't seen any proof that she set a copy ablaze . Afghanistan 's Ministry of Hajj and Religious Affairs has found no such evidence , either , according to Tolo . Mark Bowden , acting head of the U.N. Afghanistan mission , said that burning the Quran hurts efforts to promote `` understanding and mutual respect between cultures and religions . '' `` However , the brutal murder of this woman is an unspeakably horrendous act , '' Bowden said , `` that should result in those responsible being prosecuted , to the fullest extent possible , under Afghan law . '' Nahid , a 45-year-old woman who goes only by one name , told CNN what she saw and heard outside the Shah Do Shamshera shrine , which is opposite a mosque by the same name . A group of women were shouting at the eventual victim , accusing her of burning the Quran , according to Nahid . The woman yelled back . This got the attention of men nearby . Police tried to close gates to keep them out but it did n't work , said the witness , noting that many men jumped a fence and began beating the accused woman . The hits and kicks ended after someone poured fuel on the woman and lit her on fire , said Nahid , who watched from inside the shrine . `` ( They ) burned her and then threw her corpse away in the Kabul River , '' she said . As of Saturday , 11 people had been arrested in connection with the woman 's death , according to Interior Ministry spokesman Sediq Seddiqi . Seddiqi said that the investigation is ongoing . President Ashraf Ghani ordered two investigations related to the case -- one into the beating itself and another including religious scholars . His government is `` committed to protecting and safeguarding all Islamic values , '' including prohibitions on burning the Quran ( if that is , indeed , what this woman did ) . That 's a responsibility of the nation 's security and legal system , Ghani said , not of individual Afghans . `` No individual is allowed to make oneself a judge and use violence to punish others in degrading manners , '' the President said . `` Launching personal trials and choosing who to punish stands in clear contradiction to Sharia and Islamic justice . '' CNN 's Masoud Popalzai reported from Kabul , and CNN 's Greg Botelho wrote this story from Atlanta .
11 have been arrested in woman 's beating , government spokesman says . She was accused of burning the Quran , though there 's no evidence yet she did . Her parents say their daughter suffered from mental illness for years .