Tragic! Body of 15 Year Old Girl Found Hanging From Tree After Being Raped & Murdered

According to NDTV, the body of an innocent 15-year-old girl was found hanging from a tree on Saturday after she was gang-raped by three men in Uttar Pradesh’s Bahraich, India.

The unfortunate incident happened on Friday when she had gone missing from her village. The girl’s family says she was kidnapped from Nanpara, 160 kilometres from capital Lucknow, by three men who live in the same village.

The girl knew one of the rapists and he had allegedly asked her to meet him. Later, two more men also joined him and they allegedly raped and killed her and later hung her body from a tree to make it appear like a suicide.

The two men have been arrested and a manhunt is under way to find the third.

The victim went missing on Friday and her body was found on Saturday. Her father alleged the three suspects had tried to kidnap her earlier in the week but police failed to act fast. Four police officers have reportedly been suspended from duty as a result.

Senior police officer Salik Ram Verma said a post-mortem has confirmed that the girl was raped and strangled.

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