Patna: A 10-year-old girl bled to death after being raped in the Rajnagar block of Madhubani district on Tuesday evening.
The brutal incident comes barely two weeks after a 15-year-old was found dead in Haryana. She had been raped and mutilated.
The victim of the latest incident was studying in Grade 5 and had joined a group of villagers on their way to immerse idols of deity Saraswati. She lost the group midway.
As villagers were returning in the evening, they saw the semi-naked body of the girl lying unconscious on the road, bleeding. She was taken to the local government hospital, but died within five minutes of being admitted there.
“She was admitted around six in the evening. We found dagger marks around her private parts and blood oozing from there. She died soon after,” Dr Ramesh Kumar Paswan who treated the victim said. He said she bled to death.
Hospital authorities said she may have been gang-raped. Police have recovered two sets of slippers and a sack soaked with blood from the spot. “We have ordered a post mortem,” district magistrate, Madhubani, Shirshat Kapil Ashok said.
Last month, three nuns were gang-raped at gunpoint at an ashram (spiritual retreat) in Nawada district of Bihar, allegedly by the ashram’s volunteers.
The incidents of rape remain a matter of grave concern in Bihar. According to an official report, a total of 1,035 cases of rapes were reported until October, 2017. In 2016, 1,008 cases of rape were reported, followed by 1,041 in 2015, 1,127 in 2014 and 1,128 in 2013. Similarly, 927 cases were reported in 2012, 934 in 2011, 795 in 2010, 929 in 2009, 1,041 in 2008, 1,122 in 2007, 1,083 in 2006 and 973 in 2005.
