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New India Gang Rape: Woman Hung from Tree after Sexual Assault in Bihar [VIDEO]

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January 14, 2013 6:27 AM GMT

A woman at an anti-rape protest - Reuters

Another fatal gang rape has been reported in India - less than a month after the gruesome sexual assault on a private bus in Delhi in which the 23-year-old victim died.

Authorities said a 32-year-old woman, originally from the eastern state of West Bengal, was travelling on a train through the northern state of Bihar when she was abducted by a group of drunken men.

The woman, who had been travelling on the train to Delhi with her 10-year-old son, was reportedly taken to a nearby orchard, sexually assaulted, strangled and hung from a tree.

Locals report that the victim's clothes were found a few metres away from the tree from which her semi-naked body was left hanging after the attack.

There are conflicting versions of how the woman left the train. Some reports say that the perpetrators of the crime pulled the chain to stop the train, and then forced her out of the compartment. According to another report, the woman suddenly jumped out of the train as it slowed down, while another claims she alighted at a station called Bhagalpur.

"As she went towards the toilet, her cousin followed her. When she jumped out of the train all of a sudden, the cousin tried to stop her, but couldn't. It is not clear why she took this step," Meenu Kumari, assistant superintendent of the local police force, told the Hindustan Times.

The authorities found liquor bottles in the orchard where the incident is said to have taken place, according to the Press Trust of India.

The police have launched a investigation, and the woman's body has been sent to the Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College and Hospital in Bhagalpur for autopsy.

The incident came to light just a day after a 29-year-old woman was reportedly gang-raped by a group of men in the north Indian state of Punjab.

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Six men in India arrested after ANOTHER brutal gang rape of a woman bus passenger

Attack comes just weeks after the brutal gang rape and murder of a student on a bus travelling through New Delhi
Latest victim was abducted Friday night and driven to a secluded spot where seven men took turns to rape her, police said
She was dumped near her in-laws village the next morning, where she reported the crime to police
Local reports claim accused have already confessed to the crime in preliminary interrogations - a seventh suspect remains at large

Six men have been arrested over the rape of a woman on a coach in northern India in an attack which has disturbing echoes of the gang-rape and murder of a student on a New Delhi bus just weeks ago.

The victim was travelling to her in-laws' home in Punjab on Friday when she was allegedly snatched and driven to a district bordering Amritsar, the Sikh holy city.

Five men joined the driver and conductor, who had taken her by motorbike to an unknown address, and took turns to rape the 29-year-old.

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Early morning traffic in Amritsar, India, near where a 29-year-old woman was raped after she was abducted from a bus on Friday

They dumped her near her in-laws' village the next morning where she told relatives of her ordeal, police said.

'Six men have been arrested on allegations of having raped a 29-year-old woman... after forcibly taking her to an unknown location on the night of January 11,' local police officer Raj Jeet Singh said.

A seventh suspect is still on the run from the police, he added.

'The lady, after being kidnapped, was raped brutally throughout the night by the seven accused,' he said.

'After raping the victim throughout the night, one of the accused dropped her near her in-laws' house the next morning where she narrated the whole incident to her two sisters-in-law.'

Outcry: Activists on hunger strike in New Delhi last week in a protest against the gang rape and murder of a student in December. Six men have been arrested after a second woman was raped in north India on Friday

Freedom? An Indian woman holds a placard in a December 30 protest after the death of the 21-year-old who was recently gang-raped and murdered on a moving bus a fortnight earlier

Asked why she had not resisted when she was being taken by motorcycle to the secluded spot where she was attacked, Superintendent Singh said she was 'a bit mentally weak', the Indian Express reported.

The extent of the victims injuries had yet to be established, but an initial examination confirmed she had been raped, the Deccan Chronicle reported.

Local news services are reporting that the suspects have confessed during preliminary interrogations.

This Google Map shows the location of Amritsar, northern India, near where the woman was snatched

The attack is disturbingly similar to the December 16 gang-rape and murder of a 21-year-old student in Delhi, where five men are on trial in a case that has fuelled anger across India over the treatment of women.

Partap Singh Bajwa, a local Congress Party politician, blamed the police for not enforcing stringent checks on buses operating in the state.

'It all happened due to laxity of police as they never bother to check out the buses moving on national highways during night time,' Bajwa told AFP.

Baying for blood: Members of India's Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) take part in a candlelight march in Amritsar on December 30, 2012, after the cremation ceremony for the victim of the December 16 gang rape

Protesters across India have called for the police to be more vigilant and sensitive to the growing incidence of sexual assault against women, after details emerged of the New Delhi attack.

Police and prosecutors have outlined how the alleged rapists picked up the woman and her male companion in a school bus which they had taken for a joyride after drinking heavily.

The bus would have had to cross numerous police checkpoints at that time of night but at no stage was the vehicle pulled over by officers.

After getting into an argument with the woman's male companion, the group allegedly beat him up and raped the victim in the back of the bus while driving around Delhi for some 45 minutes.

They also sexually assaulted her with a rusted metal bar, leaving her with severe internal injuries, before hurling her from the vehicle.

She died in a Singapore hospital 13 days after the attack.