India gang-rape victims\\\' relative calls for public hanging of attackers
Monday, 2 June 2014
INDIA, June 1 (CNN): Mourners sat on mud floors at a village in India where two teen girls were gang-raped and then found hanging from a mango tree. They wailed and talked of fears of more attacks.
The assault on the cousins, ages 14 and 16, sparked outrage in the community in Uttar Pradesh state.
Villagers streamed into the homes of the girls' relatives, weeping behind their customary veils. The mother of one of the girls said her daughter wanted to become a doctor to escape grinding poverty. The attackers, she said, deserved the same fate that befell her daughter. "Hang them in public," she said. CNN cannot identify the relatives or victims under Indian law.