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Gang-rape victim dies, PM says death won't go in vain
Today early at 4.45 a.m A young woman who was
gang-raped and tortured in the capital of India .She was died in Singapore early
Saturday. Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said it was up to "us all to
ensure that her death will not have been in vain".
The victim,
whose name has not been revealed, "passed away peacefully at 4.45 a.m. with her distraught family and Indian diplomats by her
side, Singapore's Mount Elizabeth Hospital's Kelvin Loh said.
The 23-year-old woman she was suffered from multiple-organ failure
after she was raped by six males, including a juvenile, in a moving bus
in Delhi for around 40 minutes Dec 16 and dumped her by a roadside.
The girl was travelled with his friend he is also badly beaten up and thrown out from the bus.
The six accused have been arrested and now they are in Delhi's Tihar Central Jail.
Authorities in India shifted the
woman, who had been on ventilator support since her rape, to Singapore
Thursday in a last ditch attempt to save her life.
"Despite all efforts by a team of eight specialists
in Mount Elizabeth Hospital to keep her stable, her condition continued
to deteriorate over these two days," Loh said.
"She had suffered from several organs failure due to the rape and also following serious injuries to her body and brain.
"She was courageous in fighting
for her life for so long against the odds but the trauma to her body was
too severe for her to overcome."
B.D. Athani, medical
superintendent of Delhi's Safdarjung Hospital, said the woman had been
speaking to her mother and other family members earlier, giving the
impression that she would somehow survive.
But her condition deteriorated
rapidly after a third operation, with a fatal infection spreading to her
chest, lungs and intestine, he said.
Expressing his deepest
condolences, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said it was up to "us all to
ensure that her death will not have been in vain" and India becomes "a
demonstrably better and safer place for women to live in".
He said he joined the nation "in conveying to her family and friends" his deepest condolences at this "terrible loss".
"I want to tell them and the
nation that while she may have lost her battle for life, it is up to us
all to ensure that her death will not have been in vain.
India's High Commissioner to Singapore, T.C.A. Raghavan, said the woman's family was "shattered".
"It was very trying for the
family. The girl of course was unconscious," he said. "I must say they
(the family) bore the entire process with a great deal of fortitude and
courage."
He said her body would be flown to India Saturday afternoon.
The prime minister said already we have seen the emotions and also energies this incident has been generated and now these are perfectly understandable reactions from a young India and an
India that genuinely desires change.
"The need of the hour is a dispassionate debate and inquiry into the critical changes that are required in societal attitudes.
"The government is examining, on
priority basis, the penal provisions that exist for such crimes and
measures to enhance the safety and security of women."
The horrific gang-rape, in which
the crucial gang rape they used an iron rod to torture her, triggered angry
demonstrations across india against growing sexual crimes against women.
A policeman died in one such protest in Delhi.
The Indian government vowed to fast track the trial of the accused.
