Colombian Maria Consuelo Cordoba wants to die after years of breathing through tubes after horror acid attack

A Colombian woman left with a severely disfigured face after her husband threw acid at her says she is so exhausted by decades of treatment that she wants to die.

Maria Consuelo Cordoba needs two plastic tubes protruding from her nose to help her breathe and has only a small opening where her mouth once was.

The 58-year-old struggles to eat, cannot work and is still waiting for further reconstructive surgery.

The Bogota woman has undergone more than 80 operations and spent lengthy periods in hospital since she was attacked by her then-husband in 2000.

Now 26 years on, she says she is physically, emotionally and financially exhausted and no longer wants to keep living.

Ms Cordoba appeared wearing a mask over her heavily scarred face during an interview with Colombian broadcaster CityTV this week, revealing the tubes she relies on to breathe.

She said that spends her days walking the streets of Bogota begging for money to pay for the small room she rents.

Ms Cordoba, originally from the department of Choco, moved to Bogota with her husband nearly three decades ago in search of work.

She said that he attacked her after she refused to return to Choco with him.

“I didn’t know it was acid because he had it in a bottle of liquor. I just thought he was drinking.