Horror attacks on girls shock India as an 8-year-old is gang-raped and stoned to death, while a 13-year-old has her eyes gouged out in fatal torture
- Two young women were killed after being attacked on the street in India
- A girl in Rajkot was lured to a bush, raped and then run over to death
- Another had his eyes gouged out and his mouth filled with mud before he was killed
India has been shaken to its core after an eight-year-old girl was gang-raped and stoned to death, and a 13-year-old girl had her eyes gouged out in a fatal torture attack.
The attacks come amid a massive increase in violence against women and girls in India over the past decade.
Police in Rajkot, a city of two million people in the western state of Gujarat, said the eight-year-old girl’s body was found in a secluded spot behind a railway station on Saturday.
Since then, the force said it arrested three people accused of abducting, raping and injuring the unnamed child on Monday.
Police said CCTV of the incident showed her being lured into a bush by one of the attackers, before the other two joined them.
Police have arrested three people for the attack in Rajkot, but police in Baerilly are still looking for the person who attacked the 13-year-old girl.
The three assaulted him before smashing his head with stones, according to Additional Commissioner of Police Vidhi Chaudhary.
Chaudhary added: ‘The accused killed the girl as they were known to her father and was afraid that she might tell him about them.’
Two of the alleged attackers reportedly fled the city after the body was found, fearing arrest.
In Baerilly, in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh, a 13-year-old girl was found dead in a cane field after she went missing on her way home from school.
A senior police officer told the Times of India that her attacker had covered the young girl’s mouth with mud, pierced her eyes with sugar stalks and tortured her.
A member of the autopsy team told the newspaper that they are currently testing to see if she was raped.
“We have seen bruises near her private parts and samples have been taken to confirm the sexual assault through laboratory tests.
“There were seven deep wounds on the girl’s body. She must have gone through a lot of pain. She was obviously tortured before the murder.’
Senior police officer Naipal Singh said in a statement: “The case has been taken up on priority and senior officials are monitoring the investigation. Four teams are working on the leads and the forensic team is collecting evidence.
“We are getting support from the surveillance team and anti-social elements of the area under scanner. We hope for a breakthrough soon.’
Violence against women and girls in India has increased dramatically in the last decade.
The National Crime Records Bureau reported a 15.3% increase in crimes against women between 2020 and 2021.
Between 2011 and 2021, there was an 87% increase in crimes against women.
Last year, it was reported that there were an average of 87 new rape cases opened every day in India.
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