India: two teenage sisters raped and murdered in Uttar Pradesh
by Hannah Ellis-Petersen in Delhi from World news | The Guardian on (#63NFV)
Six men charged over deadly attack on girls, aged 15 and 17, of Dalit caste
Two sisters in Uttar Pradesh have been found raped, murdered and hanging from a tree in the latest incident of sexual violence to shock India.
The bodies of the girls, aged 15 and 17, were found suspended from a tree by their shawls near their home in Lakhimpur district on Wednesday afternoon. They belonged to the Dalit caste, the lowest in India's hierarchical and discriminatory Hindu caste system, which used to deem Dalits as untouchables".
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