KOLKATA (AFP) — An Indian teenager was gang-raped in two separate attacks and then died after being set on fire, sparking protests in the eastern city of Kolkata and the capital, police said Thursday.
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| Indian demonstrators hold candles in honour of a physiotherapy student who was gang-raped and murdered at a protest to mark the one year anniversary of her death in New Delhi on December 29, 2013. (PHOTO: AFP) |
The 16-year-old was first assaulted on October 26 and then again the next day by a group of more than six men near her family's home in the town of Madhyagram, 25 kilometres (15 miles) north of Kolkata. The second rape occurred as she was returning home from the police station after reporting the first attack.
She was then set on fire on December 23 and died in a State-run hospital late on New Year's Eve, police said. "She gave us a dying declaration in front of the health officials that she was set on fire by two persons close to the accused when she was alone at home on December 23," local policeman Nimbala Santosh Uttamrao told AFP. Police made their first arrests on Wednesday, two months after the initial crime, local police chief Rajiv Kumar told AFP. Read more:
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