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Indian Girls Found Hanging After Gang Rape

HeadlineMay 29, 2014

Two teenaged girls have been found hanging in India following their gang rape by five men. The girls from the Dalit community in Uttar Pradesh state were 14 and 15 years old. Police say they believe the girls took their own lives after they were raped, but some reports say they may have been strangled to death. Three people have been arrested, two of them police officers.

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