Teenage girl dies after being thrown off bus in India's Punjab
A 14-year-old girl has died and her mother have been seriously injured after they were thrown off a moving bus in the northwestern Indian state of Punjab, security sources say.
Local security officials said on Thursday that the incident took place in Moga district of Punjab State on Wednesday evening.
Indian law enforcement agencies said three men, including the bus conductor and his assistant, have been detained and charged with murder and molestation.
Witnesses say the bus had a few passengers at the time of the assault.
The victim's mother said the men had harassed her daughter after they boarded the bus from their village to visit a Sikh temple.
"The men kept harassing and abusing us. No one helped. They first pushed my daughter off the bus, then me," media outlets quoted the mother, who has been admitted to a civil hospital, as saying.
The weeping mother also said that her daughter died on the highway before they could get medical help. The girl was declared dead after being taken to hospital.
The assault is the latest in a string of crimes against women that have sparked nationwide outrage and protests.
In December 2012, a 23-year-old medical female student was gang-raped on a moving bus in the capital, New Delhi. In that case, the woman and her male companion were brutally assaulted and she later died in hospital from her injuries.
The brutal incident sparked nationwide protest rallies and forced the Indian authorities to introduce tougher laws for crimes against women.
In mid-March, an elderly nun was gang-raped by a group of bandits in a Christian missionary school in India's West Bengal area.
In January, a video went viral online showing two sisters fighting back against men who were apparently sexually harassing them on a bus in northern India. The video received widespread attention in the country, where sexual violence and attacks on women have already been a focus of public debate.
According to the National Crime Records Bureau, one woman is raped every 20 minutes in the world’s second most populous country.
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