(ANSA) - NEW DELHI, 29 SEPT - The death of a young woman victim of rape has sparked a new wave of protests throughout India, again in shock.
The girl, 19, died this morning at dawn in a hospital in New Delhi, where she was fighting for her life with very serious injuries following the attack she suffered last September 14 in Hathras, a rural area of Uttar Pradesh.
The girl, whose name, as required by Indian law, was not disclosed, was found agonizing in a field, where she had gone to cut grass and graze cattle: she was in a lake of blood, with her tongue cut off and a thorn. broken backbone for the atrocities suffered.
This morning, the Uttar Pradesh police said they had arrested the four men reported by the victim in one of the rare moments of lucidity during the hospitalization.
The girl belonged to a family of Dalits, the outcasts, once known as pariahs: her brothers have declared to the media that the villagers of the upper caste habitually treat them with threats and aggressive behavior.
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