A girl in eastern
India was allegedly gang-raped and shot dead,
police said Tuesday, the latest in a string of sexual assaults that has triggered angry
protests across the country.
Police suspect that the victim, whose age and identity was not known, was gang-raped, killed and her body burnt before being dumped in a deserted field in Buxar town in Bihar state.
"We received (her) burnt body on Tuesday, a day after she went missing from her house in Buxar town," a police official told AFP.