The 23-year-old woman was on her way to board a train to attend a court hearing when she was doused with kerosene and set on fire by a group she said included her two rapists.
A 23-year-old rape victim set on fire by a gang of men which included her alleged rapists has died in a New Delhi hospital.The woman alleged she was raped at gunpoint last year and named two men in her police complaint
Those two men, plus three others, have been arrested after the woman was beaten, stabbed, and set on fire on the way to her court hearingThe woman was on her way to board a train in Unnao district of northern Uttar Pradesh state on Thursday to attend a court hearing over her rape whenThe attack, the second major case of violence against women in the past two weeks, sparked public outrage in India and prompted protests from opposition leaders who blamed the ruling party for failing to check...
"She was having 95 per cent burns," he said, adding the woman's windpipe was burnt, and"toxic and hot fumes" had filled her lungs.
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