India gang rape victim dies in hospital

English.news.cn   2012-12-29 08:06:33

 • A college student who was recently gang-raped in Delhi died in a private hospital in Singapore.

 • The patient has been under intensive care since she was flown in from India on Thursday.

 • The young woman was beaten repeatedly with an iron rod and gang-raped on Dec. 16 in Delhi.

India's High Commissioner to Singapore, Dr. T. C. A. Raghavan attends an unscheduled press conference at Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore on Dec. 29, 2012. The 23-year-old victim of the recent gang rape died at the hospital at 4:45 a.m. on Saturday after suffering from severe organ failure. (Xinhua/Then Chih Wey)

SINGAPORE, Dec. 29 (Xinhua) -- A 23-year-old college student who was recently gang-raped in the Indian capital of Delhi died in a private hospital in Singapore on early Saturday, the hospital said.

"We are very sad to report that the patient passed away peacefully at 4.45 a.m.," Kelvin Loh, chief executive officer of the Mount Elizabeth Hospital, said in a statement.

Outrage at bus gang rape of Indian medical student

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  Prayers at a candle-lit vigil in Mumbai as the violent attack led to protests across the country Rafiq Maqbool/AP

Francis Elliott Delhi

Last updated at 10:45AM, December 21 2012

The gang rape of a medical student on a bus in Delhi is forcing India to confront the factors behind an increase in attacks on women, many of them involving extreme sexual violence.

The 23-year-old, whose parents had sold their only plot of land to fund her studies to become a doctor, had spent the evening at a shopping centre in south Delhi before catching a bus home with her boyfriend on Sunday.

At 10.24pm police on the outskirts of the capital received a call that a crowd had gathered around a young man and woman who had been found

Indian gang-rape teen kills herself, second victim ‘fighting for life’

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  Mass protests across India are calling for harsher penalties for rapists Saurabh Das/AP

Oliver Moody

Last updated at 8:51AM, December 28 2012

A teenage girl who was among the victims of a recent spate of gang rapes in India has killed herself after being urged to drop her accusations, police and a relative said last night.

The 17-year-old, from the Patiala region in the Punjab, swallowed poison and was found dead on Wednesday. Another gang rape victim, a 23-year-old medical student from Delhi who suffered serious internal injuries during an assault on a bus, was flown to hospital in Singapore for organ transplant surgery yesterday.

The Singapore hospital said this morning that the medical student is “fighting for her life” after suffering ...