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theHandpuppet

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Fri Jun 6, 2014, 10:52 PM Jun 2014

India troops fight militants who killed woman for resisting molesters

BBC News - Asia
5 June 2014
India troops fight militants who killed woman for resisting molesters

Paramilitary forces in north-east India are battling militants who shot dead a woman for resisting their attempts to assault her, police say.

There has been fighting in Meghalaya state since this morning, police official GHP Raju told BBC Hindi.

Five members of the GNLA militant group locked the woman's husband and children inside their house on Tuesday evening.

They then dragged the woman out and shot her in the head when she fought their attempt to sexually assault her....

MORE at http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-27709886

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