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Indian Gang-Rape Victim's Condition Worsens

Catherine Green |
December 28, 2012 | 10:32 a.m. PST

Executive Producer

 

Inside the Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre, where the young woman is being treated. (Wikimedia Commons)
Inside the Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre, where the young woman is being treated. (Wikimedia Commons)
Doctors said Friday the condition of the Indian medical student whose gang-rape attack triggered protests around the country is deteriorating. Signs indicate the 23-year-old woman's vital organs are failing at the Singapore hospital where she's being treated.

Reuters reported Mount Elizabeth Medical Centre Chief Executive Kelvin Loh released a statement that her family had been informed of her worsening condition and were by her side.

Hospital representatives had said earlier that there had been "significant brain injury" in the attack, in which the young woman was beaten, raped and then thrown from a moving bus.

The Indian government has been severely criticized for its handling of the attack. There are concerns that if the woman dies, more protests could erupt in the nation's capital and beyond.

Read the full story here, and more of Neon Tommy's coverage of the attack here.

 

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