The family of a 16-year-old who was gang-raped twice, then set on fire mourns on Wednesday, a day after the girl died. Sonali Pal Chaudhury/NurPhot/REX/AP

After surviving two separate gang rapes on consecutive days in October, an Indian teenager died from being set on fire, sparking protests in the eastern city of Kolkata and the capital, police said Thursday.

The 16-year-old, who died Tuesday night, was first assaulted on Oct. 26 and then again the next day by a group of more than six men near her family's home in the town of Madhyagram, 15 miles north of Kolkata.

The second rape occurred as she was returning home after reporting the first attack at a police station.

She was then set on fire on Dec. 23 and died in a state-run hospital late on New Year's Eve, police said.

"She gave us a dying declaration in front of the health officials that she was set on fire by two persons close to the accused when she was alone at home on Dec. 23," local policeman Nimbala Santosh Uttamrao told Agence France-Presse.

Police made their first arrests on Wednesday, two months after the initial crime, local police chief Rajiv Kumar told AFP.

"The accused tried to kill my daughter by setting her on fire to hush up their crimes," the victim's father told AFP. He is a migrant taxi driver from Bihar, India's poorest state.

Neither he nor the victim can be named for legal reasons.