2 Indian underage girls gang-r*ped & hanged from a tree in India

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Two teenage girls, a 14 year old and her 15 year old cousin were gang-r*ped by five Indian men and then hanged them from a tree in a village in the northern stateo f Uttar Pradesh, police said today.

According to Reuters, the two girls who were from a low-caste Dalit community went missing from` their village home when they sought out to visit the toilet on Tuesday evening, May 27th. The following morning, villagers found the bodies of the two teenagers hanging from a mango tree in a nearby orchard. 
Indian police have arrested one man and are seeking four other suspects. The authorities said a post-mortem confirmed the two minors were r*ped and died from the hanging. DNA samples have been taken to help identity the perpetrators, the police told reporters. Graphic content after the jump.

The victim's families allege that local police were shielding the attackers because they refused to take action when the girls were first reported missing.

It was just after angry villagers found the hanging corpses and took the bodies to a nearby highway and blocked it in protest, that police registered an incident of rape and murder.