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Indian girl dies after being set on fire



Four arrested for setting teenager alight after she resisted attempts to molest her in northern state of Uttar Pradesh.


A teenage girl has died in northern India one week after a gang of men set her on fire as punishment for resisting their attempts to molest her, police said.

The horrific incident is the latest in India where sex attacks on women continue to occur on an almost daily basis despite an international outcry over the fatal gang-rape of a student in 2012.

In the latest case, police have arrested four men over the attack which occurred after the 15-year-old girl stepped outside her home in Uttar Pradesh state on November 16.

The girl's family has told police that six men dragged her back inside the house after she objected to their lewd gestures and attempts to touch her, local superintendent RK Sahu said.

The men then doused her in kerosene and set her on fire as punishment in Shahjahanpur village, 277km southeast of New Delhi, according to the family.

The girl was taken to a local hospital but died of her injuries on Sunday night, the officer said.

"Four of the six accused have been arrested. All of them belong to the same village and are of the same caste as that of the girl," Sahu said.

Police are hunting for the other two accused.
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