Rape-killing of seven-year-old heightens Indian outrage

• Sarwar Alam
• 17 April, 2018

By: Sarwar Alam

The body of a seven-year-old girl who had been raped and strangled was found in India on Tuesday (17), compounding outrage over a series of horrific sexual attacks on women or girls. Nationwide protests have been held in the past week over the gang-rape and murder of an eight-year-old Muslim girl in Jammu and Kashmir state. In the latest case, the child’s body was found on a building site early Tuesday, hours after she went missing from a wedding in the Etah district of Uttar Pradesh state. Police said a neighbour who was putting up tents for the wedding had…

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