23-yr-old gang raped in India, skull smashed with bricks

The police in India have confirmed the death of a 23-year-old girl who was raped by a group of men and also had her skull smashed with bricks in the northern state of Haryana.

According to Ashwin Shenvi, superintendent of police, the woman, a labourer, was taken by the men – at least one of whom knew her – by car from near her home in Sonipat to the nearby city of Rohtak, where they raped her.

“When she said to them she would complain, they hammered her skull in with bricks,” he said. “The way that they brutalised her is horrific.”

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Reports say the woman had gone missing on May 9, and her decomposed and mutilated body was found in an open field in Rohtak two days later.

Attempts were also made by her attackers to disfigure her completely to prevent identification of the victim; local media said citing a post-mortem report.

Shenvi revealed that two men have been arrested in connection with the rape and murder in Sonipat town, and six more were being investigated after the victim’s mother accused them of involvement.

 

 

 

 

 

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