India in shock after teenage girls gang raped and hanged

Monday 02 June 2014 08:33 EDT

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Sohan Lal, father and uncle of Murti and Pushpa, the two girls who were raped and hanged in Katra Sadatganj in Uttar Pradesh, is comforted by his mother (Simon de Trey-White)

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News of another attack comes as India is still reeling from the rape and murder of two cousins, who were seized and assaulted after they went into the fields to relieve themselves. The girls, believed to be aged between 12-14, were then hanged from a mango tree on the edge of the village using their own scarves

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