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HOWRAH: A 10-year-old deaf and mute girl, who had allegedly been gang-raped twice — on Monday and Wednesday at Shumilia village in Howrah ’s Shyampur, died on her way to the Uluberia State General Hospital on Friday.

The victim’s family and neighbours said she was gangraped first on Monday evening and then again on Wednesday night. The family members were taking her to hospital after she complained of severe abdominal pain and was bleeding from her private part since Thurday. One of the two accused, Sheikh Sultan Khan (26), was arrested, said police sources.

