ALLAHABAD : A 17-year-old dalit girl was allegedly gang-raped by seven people in Uttar Pradesh's Pratapgarh district.

After raping the girl on Monday, the accused took the profusely bleeding survivor to a local quack and threatened her family. Her condition deteriorated on Thursday and she was shifted to Allahabad.

The girl was staying with her parents at a makeshift one-room hut as their house in the village was in danger of collapsing due to floods. At 10.30 pm on Monday the accused abducted her from outside her house and forcibly took her away to a desolate spot where they gang-raped her.

The culprits then took the unconscious girl back and threatened her parents of serious consequences if they opened their mouth. They later took her to a quack with her mother where the girl was administered injections.

On Tuesday the girl and her parents told her brother who lodged an FIR. A medical examination confirmed rape.

Her brother said that the girl had identified three of the seven accused. No arrests were made so far.

"A case has been registered against the accused and efforts are on to arrest them," a police officer said.