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A schoolgirl died from horrific internal injuries after she was allegedly drugged, raped and then impaled on a wooden spike by drug dealers.

Lucia Perez, 16, was allegedly picked up by the drug gang outside her school in Mar del Plata, Argentina.

After being plied with cocaine and cannabis, the girl suffered a sustained and brutal sex attack by her abductors, say prosecutors .

Following the attack, Lucia was dumped at a drugs rehab clinic where staff thought she was simply suffering from a cocaine overdose.

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Her abductors had washed and dressed her before taking her to the clinic and it was only when clinic staff performed a more detailed examination that they discovered the truth.

Prosecutor Maria Isabel Sanchez said: "The girl was impaled and this was the cause of her death.

"She had been subjected to brutal, inhumane sexual abuse."

Sanchez added: "She died because of the injuries she suffered from being impaled."

Two men - identified by police as Matias Gabriel Farias, 23, and Juan Pablo Offidani, 41 - were arrested after police traced the van used to drop Lucia at the clinic.

Police - who say a third man is being sought - found drugs, used condoms, sex toys and gun ammunition in the van.

Lucia's heartbroken father Guillermo Perez called for his daughter's killers to spend the rest of their lives behind bars.

He said: "We want life imprisonment, not just 10 or 15 years in prison and then they are able to walk free to do the same.

"My daughter was drugged, raped and impaled. Who can do something like this?"