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.