Indian Gang Rape Victim Dies In The Hospital

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A police morgue vehicle parked in front of Mount Elizabeth hospital in Singapore stands ready to retrieve the body of the Indian gang-rape victim. (AFP Photo)

The 23-year-old Indian medical student who was a victim of assault by a gang in New Delhi has died in a Singapore hospital due to some injuries she suffered during the attack.The Indian government has chartered an aircraft to fly the student’s body back to India, along with members of her family, T.C.A. Raghavan, the Indian high commissioner to Singapore, told reporters. The body was taken to a Hindu

casket firm in Singapore for embalming. Indian diplomats selected a gold and yellow coffin to transport her home, staff at the firm told reporters. “She was courageous in fighting for her life for so long against the odds but the trauma to her body was too severe for her to overcome,” Kelvin Loh, chief executive officer of the Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore said in a statement announcing her death from multiple organ failure. The victim and a male friend were returning home from the cinema by bus when, media reports say, six men on the bus beat them with metal rods and repeatedly raped the woman. Media said a rod was used in the rape, causing internal injuries. Both were thrown from the bus. The male friend survived. The six suspects have been in custody regarding the crime commited on December 16,2012.The suspects are reported to be from a slum in south Delhi. They have been charged with murder following her death, police said and the maximum penalty for murder is death. Meanwhile there has been a wide protest in India, mostly by young middle-class students, as a result. Observer however say that this might confront some uncomfortable truths about the treatment of women in the world’s largest democracy.