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Girl, 8, is fighting for life after being kidnapped, raped and left for dead with her throat slit in latest horrific case sparking protests in India
By Tariq Tahir
Published: 19:43 BST, 29 June 2018
An eight-year-old girl is fighting for her life in hospital after having her throat slashed and raped.
The suspect allegedly picked up the child outside her school as she waited for her father, promising to take her home, police said.
Instead he allegedly took her to a secluded spot, where he brutally raped her and slashed her neck, leaving her to die before she was found by locals.
Protesters have taken to the streets in the Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh state to voice their anger and to call for the rapist to be hanged
'She remains critical in an intensive care unit. She is unable to speak as her vocal chords have been damaged by a deep cut on her throat,' a doctor treating her told AFP.
The medic, who did not want to be named, said the girl had internal injuries and underwent surgery.
The suspect is being interrogated and faces charges of rape and attempted murder, Mandsaur deputy police chief S. S. Kanesh told AFP.
The Hindustan Times reported that a second suspect is now in custody and named the two men as Irfan, 20, a labourer and 24-year-old Asif, who are both from the Madarpura area.
Other media reports named the suspect as Mohammed Irfan.
The incident has led to hundreds of protestors taking to the streets for the third straight day across the Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh state.
Crowds holding placards and chanting 'death to the rapist' called for the man arrested over the assault to be hanged.
The attack on the eight-year-old girl has sparked outrage across India and reminded people about the 2012 gang rape and murder of a student in Delhi
Pupils from the Sitamau Public School tied their hands and sat on the ground at the local bus station in protest about the attack
Many local shops and schools remained closed as hundreds demonstrated across the district, including students who wore black armbands.
Police deployed officers in riot gear at several locations after angry protesters clashed with them late Thursday.
'There have been several demonstrations but the situation remains under control,' Kanesh told AFP.
As part of the protest, a group pupils from Sitamau Public School, near Mandsaur, tied their hands with black bands and instead of going to school, sat down on at the local bus station.
Sexual violence is rife in India with nearly 40,000 rape cases reported in 2016, which activists say is the tip of the iceberg as most cases go unreported.
Madhya Pradesh reported the most rapes of any Indian state in 2016, with more than 4,900 cases reported, according to government data.
India in April made the rape of children up to eight years of age a capital offence.
That came after the gang-rape and murder of a Muslim girl by a group of Hindu extremists who, police say, wanted to drive away her family from where they lived in the northern Jammu region.
The case recalls the 2012 gang-rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus which sparked revulsion and protests across India and put the country's abysmal record on sexual violence in the global spotlight.
Girl, 8, is fighting for life after being kidnapped, raped and left for dead with her throat slit in latest horrific case sparking protests in India
By Tariq Tahir
Published: 19:43 BST, 29 June 2018
An eight-year-old girl is fighting for her life in hospital after having her throat slashed and raped.
The suspect allegedly picked up the child outside her school as she waited for her father, promising to take her home, police said.
Instead he allegedly took her to a secluded spot, where he brutally raped her and slashed her neck, leaving her to die before she was found by locals.
Protesters have taken to the streets in the Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh state to voice their anger and to call for the rapist to be hanged
'She remains critical in an intensive care unit. She is unable to speak as her vocal chords have been damaged by a deep cut on her throat,' a doctor treating her told AFP.
The medic, who did not want to be named, said the girl had internal injuries and underwent surgery.
The suspect is being interrogated and faces charges of rape and attempted murder, Mandsaur deputy police chief S. S. Kanesh told AFP.
The Hindustan Times reported that a second suspect is now in custody and named the two men as Irfan, 20, a labourer and 24-year-old Asif, who are both from the Madarpura area.
Other media reports named the suspect as Mohammed Irfan.
The incident has led to hundreds of protestors taking to the streets for the third straight day across the Mandsaur district of Madhya Pradesh state.
Crowds holding placards and chanting 'death to the rapist' called for the man arrested over the assault to be hanged.
The attack on the eight-year-old girl has sparked outrage across India and reminded people about the 2012 gang rape and murder of a student in Delhi
Pupils from the Sitamau Public School tied their hands and sat on the ground at the local bus station in protest about the attack
Many local shops and schools remained closed as hundreds demonstrated across the district, including students who wore black armbands.
Police deployed officers in riot gear at several locations after angry protesters clashed with them late Thursday.
'There have been several demonstrations but the situation remains under control,' Kanesh told AFP.
As part of the protest, a group pupils from Sitamau Public School, near Mandsaur, tied their hands with black bands and instead of going to school, sat down on at the local bus station.
Sexual violence is rife in India with nearly 40,000 rape cases reported in 2016, which activists say is the tip of the iceberg as most cases go unreported.
Madhya Pradesh reported the most rapes of any Indian state in 2016, with more than 4,900 cases reported, according to government data.
India in April made the rape of children up to eight years of age a capital offence.
That came after the gang-rape and murder of a Muslim girl by a group of Hindu extremists who, police say, wanted to drive away her family from where they lived in the northern Jammu region.
The case recalls the 2012 gang-rape and murder of a student on a Delhi bus which sparked revulsion and protests across India and put the country's abysmal record on sexual violence in the global spotlight.
