Indian Police Arrest 6 In Second Bus Rape Incident
Police arrested six suspects after the alleged Friday night attack in Gurdaspur district in Punjab. The bus driver was among those detained, while a manhunt is underway for the other man still on the loose.
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The bus sped past her stop, police said. By that time, the woman was the only passenger.
The bus driver and his helper then took the married 29-year-old woman to an undisclosed address where five others joined the two men and raped her throughout the night, police said.
"They threatened me with a sharp edged weapon and did wrong things with me," the victim told CNN's sister station, CNN-IBN. "They kept me confined all through the night and forced me to do what they want."
Back on Dec. 16, attackers gang-raped a woman as she boarded a bus in New Delhi, beat her male companion, robbed them and dumped them by the side of a road. The 23-year-old in the New Delhi attack died two weeks later while undergoing treatment.
The Indian government has vowed to push stronger laws against sexual assault. The number of reported rape cases in India has soared from 2,487 in 1971 to 24,206 in 2011, according to official figures.
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