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Two teenage girls have been gang-raped in separate attacks in India in the past four days, including one who then committed suicide by hanging herself, according to local reports.

One of the victims was a 16-year-old girl who killed herself Monday afternoon after she was abducted and raped by eight men a day earlier in the Nuh district of the Indian state of Haryana, the Times of India reported.

The girl was grabbed while she was home alone, according to the news outlet.

The men, from the same village, showed up on two bikes and in a car and forced the girl to a desolate road around midnight Sunday, the report said. Following the attack, they left her outside her home.

A cousin found her outside later and the girl’s father filed a complaint with police. Sources told the Times, however, that the suspects come from “influential families” and tried to get the girl’s father to drop the case, leading to a fight.

On Monday afternoon, the girl’s family found her dead inside their home.

“We are blaming ourselves for leaving her alone. We want the accused to be given the death penalty,” the girl’s father told the Times of India.

No arrests have been made in the attack, but a police official vowed “our teams are on the job to nab the accused,” according to the report.

“The accused are absconding but they will be put behind the bars at the earliest,” inspector Jaibhan Tyagi said.

On Tuesday, a 19-year-old woman was gang-raped by an auto-rickshaw driver, whom she hailed, and four other men in the city of Gurugram, just southwest of New Delhi.

The victim in that case told police she was waiting for a bus at the Sohna bus stand, when the driver tricked the woman into thinking she had missed her bus and offered her a ride, police spokesman Ravindra Kumar told Reuters.

The teen was then taken to a deserted area where she was raped by the driver and four waiting men.

“The accused stopped the vehicle at a secluded spot where there were a lot of bushes and I saw four other persons waiting there. The accused caught hold of me and they took turns to rape me. When I tried to fight them off, they pinned down my hands and legs,” the victim told police, according to the Hindustan Times.

The victim, who lost consciousness during the attack, also told police the men threatened to kill her if she told anyone, the Hindustan Times reported.

Her attackers are still at large.

The horrific incidents — the latest in a sexual assault epidemic sweeping the country — come less than a month after India’s government approved the death penalty for people convicted of raping children under the age of 12.

The law change came after the ruthless gang-rape and murder of an 8-year-old girl in the northern Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir back in January, which sparked widespread protests.

Reported cases of sexual assault are on the rise in India.

According to Reuters, since 2012, reported rape cases jumped 60 percent to about 40,000 in 2016, with child rape cases making up about 40 percent of them.

With Post wires

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