Protests have erupted in the Indian city of Hyderabad over the rape and murder of a 27-year-old woman.
Thousands of protesters have gathered outside a police station on the outskirts of the Indian city of Hyderabad demanding four men accused of raping and murdering a 27-year-old woman be handed over to them.Police said the men allegedly offered to fix a flat tire on the woman's motorbike before killing herThe fatal gang rape of a woman on a bus in 2012 sparked widespread protests in India
Some protesters clashed on Saturday with police, hurling slippers, after the charred body of the woman, a veterinarian, was found in the nearby town of Shadnagar on Thursday. Police said medical evidence would be hard to obtain given the state of the body but that they were working on the assumption the victim had been raped.The woman went missing on Wednesday night and her body was found by a passer-by in an underpass on the outskirts of Hyderabad, the capital of Telangana state, police commissioner VC Sajjanar said.
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